A reason to get up in the morning
Subtitle: a cold warrior remembers
By: by James M. Rentschler
Publisher: Estate of James M. Rentschler
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9780557017546; 9780557017539
Subjects: Diplomats; Biography; Foreign relations; Diplomatic relations
Description: "A Reason to Get Up In The Morning is a wonderful, irreverent, and sometimes hilarious memoir of an American career diplomat, a dramatic account of how American Cold War policies were carried out in the field by one dedicated Foreign Service Officer, James M. Rentschler. It is therefore a view from the trenches, a view often different from what was reported in The New York Times and the Washington Post. A Reason To Get Up In The Morning is written with style, wit, and elegance by an American diplomat who served his country faithfully and well during the last four decades of the 20th Century."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "Born in Rochester Minnesota on Oct. 16, 1933 and educated at Yale and Johns Hopkins University, James Rentschler had a distinguished 30-year diplomatic career. After retiring from the Foreign Service in 1986, he became head of the Press Directorate of the OECD in Paris. He died on May 2, 2007"--Page 716.