The Foreign Service Journal, November 2018

38 NOVEMBER 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Washington Park, Troy, New York: A Social History Peter D. Shaver and Stephen H. Muller, Troy Book Makers, 2017, $19.99/paperback, 120 pages. This book tells the social story of historic Washington Park, estab- lished in 1840 in Troy, New York, and one of only two private orna- mental parks in the state. The town of Troy, established in 1789, capitalized first on its location at the head of navigation of the Hudson River, and later on its ready access to the eastern end of the Erie Canal, which opened in 1825. The park was sur- rounded by planned neighborhoods that attracted the elite of the city. The book delves into the details of individual families and how their lives shaped the neighborhood—some were “new money,” and others had deep roots in the area’s economic ascent. Rich with black and white photographs, the book covers Troy and its Washington Park from their establishment in the early 19th century to the town’s 20th-century decline, and its recent rebirth and restoration. Retired FSO Stephen H. Muller settled in Troy after 26 years as an economic officer with the U.S. Department of State and has lived in the Washington Park neighborhood for 12 years. He is the author of Troy, New York, and the Building of the USS Monitor. Co-author Peter D. Shaver, a graduate of Syracuse University, has lived near Washington Park for more than three decades and was an historian at the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 Nicholas Reynolds, William Morrow, 2018, $27.99/hardcover, $16.99/paperback, $11.99/Kindle, 400 pages. A riveting international cloak-and- dagger epic ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the liberation of Western Europe, wartime China, the Red Scare of Cold War America and the Cuban Revolution, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy reveals for the first time Ernest Hemingway’s secret adventures in espionage and intelligence during the 1930s and 1940s (including his role as a Soviet agent code-named “Argo”). This literary biography with the soul of an espionage thriller is an essential contribution to our understanding of the life, work and fate of one of America’s most legendary authors. While he was the historian at the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime American intelligence officer, former U.S. Marine colonel and Oxford-trained historian, stumbled across evidence of Hemingway’s recruitment by Soviet spies to work with the NKVD, the forerunner to the KGB. That was followed in short order, the author discovered, by a complex set of secret relationships with American agencies. Reynolds’ meticulously researched and captivating narrative “looks among the shadows and finds a Hemingway not seen before,” says the London Review of Books . Reynolds explains how those secret adventures played a role in some of the novel- ist’s greatest works, including For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea . But they also added to the psychological burden that Hemingway carried at the end of his life and may well have contributed to his suicide. Nicholas Reynolds grew up in the Foreign Service. His father, George Edward Reynolds, was an FSO from 1945 to 1974; and his mother, Ilona V. Reynolds, was a Foreign Service National working in the legation in Budapest in 1947. His wife, Rebecca, retired from State’s Bureau of Medical Services in 2004. POLICYAND ISSUES American Universities in China: Lessons from Japan Dennis T. Yang, Lexington Books, 2017, $85/hardcover, 116 pages. Why is it so difficult to expand Ameri- can universities overseas? Dennis Yang discusses the ambitions and opera- tions of American universities in China through the perspective of similar efforts in Japan. In the early 1990s there were as many as 40 American universities in Japan, and Yang offers insight into why the idea of expansion appeared so attractive at first. But only a few years after Japan experienced economic hardship during what would come to be known as its “lost decade,” most of these universities would close. Will American universities in China learn from the lessons of those that failed