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Burning the Ambassador's Desk: Snapshots from the Career of a Marginally Talented American Diplomat
Burning the Ambassador's Desk: Snapshots from the Career of a Marginally Talented American Diplomat
Burning the Ambassador's Desk: Snapshots from the Career of a Marginally Talented American Diplomat
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Burning the Ambassador's Desk: Snapshots from the Career of a Marginally Talented American Diplomat

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The life of a diplomat is not all receptions and black tie affairs. There are long trips, even longer weekend duties, befuddled and befuddling colleagues, problems with water and electricity, and cockroaches, lizards and wars to deal with. Thom Gradisher chronicles his twenty-two years as a Foreign Service officer in Burning the Ambassdors Desk from his beginning as a neophyte in Africa through tours of duty in India, Sri Lanka, Washington DC and Singapore. Here is the diplomacy behind the tuxedo.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateMar 30, 2007
ISBN9781462823499
Burning the Ambassador's Desk: Snapshots from the Career of a Marginally Talented American Diplomat
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Thom Gradisher

Before entering the Foreign Service Thom Gradisher was a bricklayer, U. S. Marine, actor, stagehand, janitor, student, librarian and university instructor. He joined USIA in 1982 and left the State Department in 2004 when, he says, I started to hear my name and the word Baghdad in the same sentence. Since then he has been living in North Carolina with his wife, Pam Fabian, and, apart from Burning the Ambassadors Desk, has been writing poetry, plays and a cookbook. He is also very proud of his Hungarian Wax peppers.

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