The Ambassadors: America's Diplomats on the Front Lines
Paul Richter
(Author)
Fred Sanders
(Read by)
Description
Veteran diplomatic correspondent Paul Richter goes behind the battles and the headlines to show how American ambassadors are the unconventional warriors in the Muslim world--running local government, directing drone strikes, nation-building, and risking their lives on the front lines.The State Department's heroes are the front-line diplomats who have been unheralded, but crucial in the line of national defense for two decades of wars in the Middle East. In The Ambassadors, Paul Richter shares the astonishing, true-life stories of four expeditionary diplomats who "do the hardest things in the hardest places." We'll see Ryan Crocker's effort to organize a new Afghan government after the fall of the Taliban, even threatening the life of a Pashtun warlord, a US ally, to ensure that a column of tanks could join US forces in the biggest battle of the Afghan war. Robert Ford, the sole American official for the province of Najaf in central Iraq, tries to restart the economy and deal with growing militia violence--and is taken hostage by a Shia militia. In Syria, he is chased by government thugs for defying the country's ruler. J. Christopher Stevens is smuggled into Libya as U.S. Envoy to the rebels during its bloody civil war, then returns as ambassador only to be killed during a terror attach in Benghazi. War-zone veteran Anne Patterson is sent to Pakistan, considered the world's most dangerous country, to broker deals that prevent a government collapse and to help guide the secret war on jihadists. Richter's account of the role of America's diplomats in the wars in the Middle East and the Muslim world supplies a crucial and--until now--missing part of how these wars are being fought. An important addition to appreciating the roles of these diplomats, and an in-depth look into the complexity and length of these wars and nation-building, The Ambassadors is a critical piece of modern day history.Product Details
Price
$39.99
$37.19
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Publish Date
November 12, 2019
Language
English
Type
Compact Disc
EAN/UPC
9781797101996
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About the Author
Paul Richter has written about foreign policy and national security for three decades. As a Washington-based correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, he reported from sixty countries and appeared in US and international media. He covered the State Department for the Los Angeles Times from 2001 to 2015, and before that, the Pentagon and the White House. He was raised in the Washington, DC, area and Minneapolis, and graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is also the principal author of California and the American Tax Revolt: Prop 13 After Five Years. He lives in the Washington, DC area.
Fred Sanders is a talented actor, audiobook narrator, and Yale graduate who has performed on Broadway, in national tours, and in multiple television shows including Seinfeld, Will and Grace, and Malcolm in the Middle. His films include Sea of Love, The Shadow, and the Oscar-nominated short Culture.
