Lydia Chapin Kirk
Subtitle: partner in diplomacy, 1896-1984
By: Lydia Chapin Kirk ; edited by Roger Kirk ; with a foreword by Robert Orris Blake.
Contributors: Kirk, Roger, 1930-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780815608912
Subjects: Kirk, Lydia; Kirk, Alan Goodrich, -- 1888-1963 -- Marriage; Ambassadors' spouses -- United States -- Biography; Diplomats -- England -- London -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Diplomats -- Belgium -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Diplomats -- Soviet Union -- Social life and customs; Diplomats -- Taiwan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Admirals' spouses -- United States -- Biography; Women authors, American -- Biography; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings, 1896-1908; title: Paris, 1908-1911; title: The United States and Paris, 1911-1913; title: At home in the United States, 1914-1938; title: On the threshold of war in England, 1939; title: Wartime England, 1939-1940; title: Washington before Pearl Harbor, 1940-1941; title: America at war, 1941-1946; title: A good start in Brussels, 1946; title: Belgium, the Balkans, and a royal visit, 1946-1949; title: Behind the dreaded Iron Curtain, 1949; title: Making it work in Moscow, 1950-1951; title: A flattering but unwelcome assignment, 1962; title: A mission and a life cut short, 1962-1963; title: Final years, 1963-1984, Roger Kirk.