Closing Pandora's box
Making a difference
The militiamen of diplomacy : 1776-80
"The sword was sheathed" : 1781-85
Of consuls, commerce, and confidence : 1784-1810
Paying off the pirates : 1785-1805
"One nation as to foreign concerns" : 1787-95
"To prepare for war will be wise" : 1793-1811
Drive for identity and respect : 1811-23
An early professional : 1825-42
The spoils system : 1829-48
Expansion westward : 1821-45
War with Mexico : 1845-46
Consular reform : 1853-65
Japan's first American consul : 1856-62
The nation at war with itself : 1861-65
Public trust, private property : 1866-85
First steps to empire : 1898-99
Three diplomatic friends : 1898-1905
Practicing imperialism : 1898-1905
"The main object of diplomacy" : 1905-12
Warm-up for a world war : 1899-1914
"Well, the roof has fallen in" : 1914-16
"Slaughterhouse where madness dwells" : 1915-17
"America in Armageddon" : 1917-20
The Russian "terror" : 1917-20
The new diplomacy of oil : 1919-38
"A single unified service" : 1920-45
Between world wars : 1920-39
Early aggressions : 1934-39
"The sands are running fast" : 1931-41
"A rattlesnake posed to strike" : 1939-41
"A very tragic moment" : 1941-45
Foreign service for a new world : 1946-51
The foreign service catches up : 1946-88
Diversity comes to the elite service 1922-2011 ; China hands : 1946-89
Public diplomacy : 1941-2012
Diplomacy for American dictators : 1953-89
Trujillo and Pinochet
contrast in violence : 1960-2004
Dangerous diplomacy : 1960-78
Terrorists in the embassies : 1968-2009
A war too far
Vietnam : 1952-75
Destiny and the peacock throne : 1951-81
Shuttling salesman for peace : 1947-83
The very model of a modern foreign service : 1970-2011
The first and second Iraq Wars : 1982-2011
Fortress America : the embassy : 2004-07
New challenges for modern diplomacy : 1970-2012
The ambassador : 2011-13.