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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mr. Ambassador
  title info:
    sub title: Warrior for peace
  title info: title
  name:
    name part: Perkins, Edward J. (Edward Joseph)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Norman, OK
    publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
    date issued: 2006
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  physical description:
    form: print
  abstract: "Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me." So begins the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black United States ambassador to South Africa. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him the unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without violence. As he fulfilled that assignment, Perkins was scourged by the American press, despised by the Afrikaner government, hissed at by white South African citizens, and initially boycotted by black South African revolutionaries, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His advice to President-elect George H. W. Bush helped modify American policy and hasten the release of Nelson Mandela and others from prison. To achieve this success, he drew on his expertise in conflict resolution, devotion to the U.S. Constitution, deep study of Asian philosophy, and training as a former U.S. marine.". "Perkins's up-by-your-bootstraps life took him from a cotton farm in segregated Louisiana to the white elite Foreign Service, where he became the first black officer to ascend to the top position of director general. This is the story of how one man turned the page of history."--BOOK JACKET.
  note: Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley ; foreword by George P. Schultz ; preface by David L. Boren.
  subject:
    topic: Nhà ngoại giao người Mỹ gốc Phi,African American diplomats
  classification: 327.730092
  classification: P448
  record info:
    record creation date: 210402
    record identifier: CTU_226465