The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of American Diplomacy by George W. Liebmann
The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of American Diplomacy by George W. Liebmann
A recently published biography by George W. Liebmann explores AS/COA's Chairman John D. Negroponte’s long serving career as a U.S. diplomat who has partaken in key events in American politics.
As the author notes, his subject, John D. Negroponte, was a Democrat early in his career, a Republican at the end of it, but “no partisan.” As ambassador to countries as disparate as the Philippines and Iraq, as U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, as director of national intelligence under President George W. Bush, the long-serving Negroponte achieved a curriculum vitae that few American diplomats can match.
His last title was deputy secretary of state, in which capacity he found himself frequently at odds with the administration for which he worked — that of the second President Bush. “It is hard, without caricature,” lawyer and historian George W. Liebmann writes, “to describe the difficulties under which Negroponte labored for the last eight years of his tenure, particularly for the first six of them....”
