TY - BOOK AU - Richmond,Yale TI - Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey T2 - Explorations in Culture and International History SN - 9781845454753 AV - E744.5 .R53 2008 U1 - 327.73009045 PY - 2008///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Cold War KW - Cultural relations KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Diplomats KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Public relations and politics KW - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - History: 20th Century to Present N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACRONYMS --; FOREWORD --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 1 DOING DEMOCRACY IN DEUTSCHLAND --; Chapter 2 NATION BUILDING IN LAOS --; Chapter 3 BACK TO THE BOOKS --; Chapter 4 A VOICE TO VIETNAM --; Chapter 5 POLAND—RUSSIA’S WINDOW ON THE WEST --; Chapter 6 VIENNESE VIGNETTES --; Chapter 7 EAST EUROPEAN EXCHANGES --; Chapter 8 MOSCOW AND MORE --; Chapter 9 SHAFTED BY SHAKESPEARE --; Chapter 10 DOING DÉTENTE AT THE DEPARTMENT --; Chapter 11 USIA + CU = USICA --; Chapter 12 HELSINKI AND HUMAN RIGHTS --; Chapter 13 DOING DEMOCRACY AT NED --; AFTERWORD --; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - There is much discussion these days about public diplomacy—communicating directly with the people of other countries rather than through their diplomats—but little information about what it actually entails. This book does exactly that by detailing the doings of a US Foreign Service cultural officer in five hot spots of the Cold War - Germany, Laos, Poland, Austria, and the Soviet Union - as well as service in Washington DC with the State Department, the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Part history, part memoir, it takes readers into the trenches of the Cold War and demonstrates what public diplomacy can do. It also provides examples of what could be done today in countries where anti-Americanism runs high UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450135?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857450135 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857450135/original ER -