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Sketches from Life
Author(s): Robert W. Duemling (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date: 8 Jun. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 1442220139
- ISBN-13: 9781442220133
Book Description
Robert W. Duemling’s long career took him from Yale to the U.S. State Department where he worked his way up the ranks to become Ambassador to Suriname and then to Washington where he became the second director of the National Building Museum. Along the way, Duemling met and befriended an astonishing array of important figures in the arts, architecture, politics, and diplomacy. In this breezy, elegant collection of “sketches” of many of his friends and acquaintances, he limns the character and personality of his subjects with wit, intelligence, insight, and gentle humor. In so doing, he also provides the reader with a fascinating glimpse of his own remarkable life around the world and at home.
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About the Author
In 1957, Robert W. Duemling began his thirty year career with the Foreign Service of the United States. He specialized in political affairs and the Far East region, with assignments in Kuala Lumpur, Kuching (Borneo), Osaka, and Tokyo; and as executive assistant to the head of the East Asia Bureau of the State Department. Other postings abroad included Rome, Ottawa, and as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname. He is married to Louisa duPont Copeland and they reside in Washington, D.C. and Worton, Maryland.
