I Wanna Be A Diplomat….

Great book on the foreign service for budding diplomats.  Juicy anecdote:

Q: Do you have a favorite anecdote from your time as a diplomat?Kopp: I once spent ten hours in a sealed railway car in the People’s Republic of Poland playing penny-ante poker with Senator Hubert Humphrey and three Minnesota journalists. I didn’t get to commit much diplomacy during the train ride, but I learned a lot of politics. Ten hours with Hubert Humphrey is a powerful antidote to cynicism.