Breaking Protocol: America's First Female Ambassadors, 1933-1964

by Philip Nash

"It used to be," soon-to-be secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright said in 1996, "that the only way a woman could truly make her foreign policy views felt was by marrying a diplomat and then pouring tea on an offending ambassador's lap."

This world of US diplomacy excluded women for a variety of misguided reasons: they would let their emotions interfere with the task of diplomacy, they were not up to the deadly risks that could arise overseas,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813178398
• ISBN13: 9780813178394
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"