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100 1  Hill, Christopher R.|q(Christopher Robert),|d1952-
       |eauthor. 
245 10 Outpost :|blife on the frontlines of American diplomacy : 
       a memoir /|cChristopher R. Hill. 
250    First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c2014. 
264  4 |c©2014 
300    viii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-411) and 
       index. 
505 0  Early diplomatic lessons -- Peace Corps -- First mentor --
       A force of nature -- Frasure -- A peace shuttle -- 
       Unfinished business -- On to Geneva -- "Your beautiful 
       country" -- Kosovo : "Where it began and where it will 
       end" -- Unfinished peace -- The safe room -- Patterns of 
       cooperation -- Calling an audible -- Plastic tulips -- 
       Heart of darkness -- Showing up -- Breakfast with Cheney -
       - "That's verifiable" -- Global service -- Taking the 
       Fifth -- The longest day -- Winding down the war. 
520    "An "inside the room" memoir from one of our most 
       distinguished ambassadors who--in a career of service to 
       the country--was sent to some of the most dangerous 
       outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the 
       Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war
       in Iraq, this is the real life of an American diplomat. 
       Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup 
       of Yugoslavia. He takes us from one-on-one meetings with 
       the dictator Milosevic, to Bosnia and Kosovo, to the 
       Dayton conference, where a truce was brokered. Hill draws 
       upon lessons learned as a Peace Corps volunteer in 
       Cameroon early on in his career and details his prodigious
       experience as a US ambassador. He was the first American 
       Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, where he 
       also served in the depth of the cold war; Ambassador to 
       South Korea and chief disarmament negotiator in North 
       Korea; and Hillary Clinton's hand-picked Ambassador to 
       Iraq. Hill's account is an adventure story of danger, loss
       of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect 
       options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals 
       (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents and vice presidents 
       (Clinton, Bush and Cheney, and Obama), of Secretaries of 
       State (Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice,
       and Hillary Clinton), of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates,
       and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence 
       Eagleburger. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic 
       warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America's 
       aggressive interventions and wars of choice"--|cProvided 
       by publisher. 
600 10 Hill, Christopher R.|q(Christopher Robert),|d1952- 
610 10 United States.|bForeign Service|vBiography. 
650  0 Diplomats|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Ambassadors|zUnited States|vBiography. 
651  0 United States|xForeign relations. 
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