Georges Clemenceau, who dominated the French delegation as he had dominated France since 1917, was perhaps more friendly and less aggressive toward Belgium than some other French politicians, but he shared the prevailing disdainful ...
Martin Indyk draws on his many years of intense involvement in the region to provide the inside story of the last time the United States employed sustained diplomacy to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and change the behavior of rogue regimes ...
Innocent Abroad: The Travels of Miss Hannah Hauxwell
One stormy night Regina “Reggie” Barrington received a call from a mysterious stranger named Severo Cardenosa, who demanded she reappear in South America to keep up her end of a bargain.
His second tour, in 1867-68, ostensibly more successful, proved no antidote for the first. Using new materials—letters, diaries, and publishers' records—Jerome Meckier enumerates the reasons for the failure of Dickens's American tours.
Innocent Abroad