Sallie Pisani received her Ph.D. in history at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. She is retired from the academic community where she thought diplomatic history. Her firs...view moreSallie Pisani received her Ph.D. in history at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. She is retired from the academic community where she thought diplomatic history. Her first book The CIA and the Marshall Plan was published by the University Press of Kansas. She resides in Hollywood, Florida with her husband Francis, and is currently at work on a history of interracial marriages among commercial elites of the lower Mississippi River region in the post-Civil War period.view less