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008			140811s2014 nyua b 001 0beng
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019			_a873006345 _a873741043
020			_a1451685912 (hardback)
020			_a1451685939 (trade paper)
020			_a9781451685916 (hardback)
020			_a9781451685930 (trade paper)
020			_z9781451685954 (ebook)
035			_a(OCoLC)893202611 _z(OCoLC)873006345 _z(OCoLC)873741043
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100	1		_aHill, Christopher R. _q(Christopher Robert), _d1952- _9265889
245	1	0	_aOutpost : _blife on the frontlines of American diplomacy: a memoir / _cChristopher R. Hill.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2014.
300			_aviii, 431 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 405-411) and index.
505	0		_aEarly diplomatic lessons -- Peace Corps -- First mentor -- A force of nature -- Frasure -- A peace shuttle -- Unfinished business -- On to Geneva -- "Your beautiful country" -- Kosovo : "Where it began and where it will end" -- Unfinished peace -- The safe room -- Patterns of cooperation -- Calling an audible -- Plastic tulips -- Heart of darkness -- Showing up -- Breakfast with Cheney -- "That's verifiable" -- Global service -- Taking the Fifth -- The longest day -- Winding down the war.
520			_a"An "inside the room" memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who--in a career of service to the country--was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, this is the real life of an American diplomat. Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He takes us from one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic, to Bosnia and Kosovo, to the Dayton conference, where a truce was brokered. Hill draws upon lessons learned as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon early on in his career and details his prodigious experience as a US ambassador. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, where he also served in the depth of the cold war; Ambassador to South Korea and chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton's hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq. Hill's account is an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents and vice presidents (Clinton, Bush and Cheney, and Obama), of Secretaries of State (Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton), of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence Eagleburger. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America's aggressive interventions and wars of choice"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aHill, Christopher R. _q(Christopher Robert), _d1952- _9265889
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bForeign Service _vBiography. _9265890
650		0	_aDiplomats _zUnited States _vBiography. _9183494
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations. _9118465
942			_cBOOK _04
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