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  2. Trent Affair - Wikipedia

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    John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878). The Trent affair did not erupt as a major crisis until late November 1861. The first link in the chain of events occurred in February 1861, when the Confederacy created a three person European delegation consisting of William Lowndes Yancey, Pierre Rost, and Ambrose Dudley Mann.

  3. Story of a Secret State - Wikipedia

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    The book was quickly translated to Swedish (1945) and Icelandic (1945). It also received a French translation in 1948 (and a revised one in 2010). [1] Because of Karski's association with the Home Army, his story and the book itself were subject to communist censorship in the People's Republic of Poland.

  4. George F. Kennan: An American Life - Wikipedia

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    Fred Kaplan's review in The New York Times described the book as "an epic work—probing, engrossing, occasionally revelatory—but also a well-timed one". [ 7 ] According to a review in The Economist , the circumstances of the biography were that Gaddis began conducting interviews and accumulating papers from Kennan in 1981 with the ...

  5. Duncan F. Kenner - Wikipedia

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    Douglas Farrar Kenner was born on February 11, 1813, in New Orleans.His ancestors were from Virginia. [1] Kenner was married to the former Anne Guillelmine Nanine Bringier (August 24, 1822 – November 6, 1911).

  6. The Diplomat (novel) - Wikipedia

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    After the novel's initial publication in the UK by The Bodley Head, the novel was reprinted as follows: Little, Brown, USA, 1950 [4]; The novel was also translated into German, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Hebrew and Bulgarian in 1951, Dutch, Slovak, Russian, and Flemish in 1952, Polish and Chinese in 1953, Albanian in 1965, Slovak in 1978, Estonian in 1979, Hungarian and Azerbaijani in 1981 ...

  7. America: A Personal History of the United States - Wikipedia

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    A related book, Alistair Cooke's America, sold almost two million copies. [2] The series was a great success in both countries and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA. [3] [4] It also resulted in Cooke's invitation to address the joint Houses of the United States Congress as part of the Bicentennial celebrations.

  8. Not for the Faint of Heart - Wikipedia

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    The book is "a complete explanation of how the JCPOA was drafted and approved" from Wendy Sherman's point of view. [1] [2] The book takes the reader to the world of international diplomacy and brings their mind to the mind of one of the most effective negotiators who is often the only woman in the room. The author admits why it is difficult to ...

  9. America's Other Army - Wikipedia

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    America's Other Army: The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st-Century Diplomacy is a book by Nicholas Kralev. Its first edition was published in 2012, and its second edition in 2015. Its first edition was published in 2012, and its second edition in 2015.