Unbreaking News: Notes From the Other Side
Alexis Ludwig, James D. NealonAnecdotes, appreciations, and appropriately cynical takes with a foreign service slant. (Subtitle intended to clarify confusion and make it lightning clear where I'm coming from.)
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Former American diplomat (and resurgent "ecrivain manqué") trying to make sense of the madness through lens of life and service in Latin America, East Asia, Western Europe and Washington DC.
James D. Nealon is a retired foreign service officer whose 10 overseas postings included US Ambassador to Honduras.
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