Kill the Gringo: The Life of Jack Vaughn—American diplomat, Director of the Peace Corps, US ambassador to Colombia and Panama, and conservationist
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N90FO8A |
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| Number of Pages | : | 483 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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After his foreign service career, Jack led the National Urban Coalition and Planned Parenthood during the turbulent late 60’s and early 70’s. His rapport with people and facility with language led to a speedy rise in international development in Latin America and Africa where he drew the attention of Vice President Lyndon Johnson during his visit to Senegal in 1961. Three years later, President Johnson appointed Jack ambassador to Panama when violent anti-American riots there led to a severing of diplomatic ties.As the second director of the Peace Corps, Jack presided over the largest number of volunteers in the organization’s history and the delicate handling of anti-Vietnam fervor among its ranks. Kill the Gringo is the wide-ranging, action-packed memoir of Jack Hood Vaughn, whose career in diplomacy, social advocacy and conservation spanned more than 25 jobs and 11 countries.A professional boxer during his college years, Jack joined the Marines in 1941, fighting in the battles of Guam and Okinawa during World War II. A rural development job in Iran ended dramatically with the 1978 revolution, and Jack turned his focus to the environment, advising the Natur
You must admire a man whose career advice included, "I often say it's a gift to be fired at least once," and "it is always better to be rumored to work for the CIA than to actually be employed there.""Kirkus Reviews. "engaging eyewitness historya worthy read and a textbook for those seeking a career in public service
Juliet Martínez said Highly entertaining, humorous and surprising. This book has been my obsession for the past five days. I dreamed about urgently reading page after page last night to find out what happened next! It's not only a page-turner rich with context and inspiration for the challenges we now face, Jack Vaughn's voice and the arc of his character are both genuinely interesting.Of many passages I highlighted, this said it all: "We who engage peacefully with others have the chance to change the world in small but powerf. spaten said Of course there was a political angle to it since the Peace Corps was considered a useful counter to the spread of Communism. The U.S. Foreign Service is not noted for its independent thinkers. Ambassadors are meant to toe the line as are all those on embassy staffs and, in fact, all expats serving in U.S. programs overseas. There are exceptions. As U.S. counsel to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Archer Blood’s defiance of Henry Kissinger and President Nixon who were supporting Pakistani genocide of Bangladeshis cost him his career. But he was right on both moral and pragmatic gr. "Fortunately his daughter" according to Jack Sullivan. As a former colleague of Jack Vaughn's I have known about his effort at an autobiography for years. Unfortunately he died before it was finished. Fortunately his daughter, Jane, took up the project and by her edits and editions has fashioned a life story of a truly extraordinary human being. It is a remembered pleasure to have worked with him and a similar pleasure to have this more complete rendering of his very active life. He was an American original and I u