 Dullesian Ad Hoc Raison d’état Rehabilitated
By NICK SARANTAKES
John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy
By Richard H. Immerman (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 221. $55 cloth; $17.95 paper.)
  “Immerman asserts that this focus on one emergency after another reflects the way Dulles handled foreign policy: ‘Notwithstanding his contribution to and support for the administration’s New Look, [Dulles’] hectic agenda and peripatetic behavior were the product more of crisis management than strategic doctrine.’ ” [FULL TEXT]
 The Quintessential American Diplomat
By MATTHEW JACOBS
Proud Servant: The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador
By Ellis O. Briggs (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 430. $45.00)
 “Rather than having policy makers try to remake the world in America’s image, Briggs believed they should instead focus on promoting and defending American interests as they might be defined by Americans and delineated by American and international law.” [FULL TEXT]
 The Unlikely Lady Planter
By RICHARD MATHERON
Land of a Thousand Hills:
My Life in Rwanda
By Rosamond Halsey Carr, with Ann Howard Halsey
(New York: Viking Penguin, 1999, Pp. 248. $23.95)
 “Mrs. Carr puts the events that have taken place in Rwanda and the Congo since the 1950s into a personal perspective, but she also carefully documents the origins of the rebellions and the genocide that have plagued this overwhelmingly beautiful, mountainous, and lake-strewn African ‘Switzerland’.” [FULL TEXT]
State's Adjunct ‘Accidental Diplomats’:
Foreign Service Spouses
By LINDA KILLEN
The Accidental Diplomat:
Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse
By Katherine L. Hughes (Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Aletheia, 1999. Pp. x, 180. $17.95 paper.)
 “Hughes has painted an image of younger generation spouses that raises questions about those persons’ abilities to be diplomatic, much less diplomats. Some are unhappy because they don't like being overseas!” [FULL TEXT]
The Forgotten ‘Plumed Knight’
By GENE SCHMIEL
James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire
By Edward P. Crapol (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2000. Pp. xx, 157. $50 cloth; $17.95 paper.)
“Crapol sees Blaine as the ‘most important late nineteenth-century architect of American empire. His blueprints laid out the design for  an imperial structure that was in place at the opening of the twentieth century, and his ideas served as the intellectual groundwork and ideological justification for what became the American Century.’ ” [FULL TEXT]
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