Window Seat on the World: My Travels with the Secretary of State

By Glen Johnson and Glen Johnson

Book Overview

Reporter Glen Johnson was covering politics for the Boston Globe when he received a job offer that would embed him in the world of protocols, planes, and global peacekeeping. For the next four years, he accompanied John Kerry as he became the most-traveled Secretary of State in history.

The former journalist kept notes while Kerry worked out a power-sharing agreement in Afghanistan, negotiated with the Israelis, convinced Iran to get rid of its nuclear weapons program, developed a counter-ISIS coalition, and brokered climate change agreements, including the 2015 Paris Agreement. Kerry also confronted two lingering challenges: how to cooperate with an assertive China and a Russia that sidestepped its own wrongdoing but felt aggrieved and justified to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Window Seat on the World is an all-access look at life inside the nation's first cabinet agency: the complexity of State Department protocols, the grueling schedules, the delicacy of engagement with world leaders and foreign cultures, and the dedication of a longtime public servant and his team to the practice of diplomacy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633310396
• ISBN13: 9781633310391
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Disruption Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"