The Foreign Service Journal, November 2022

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2022 29 November FSJ all year, by mail to AFSA, 2101 E St., NW, Wash- ington, D.C., 20037, or email to journal@afsa.org . For inclusion, books must be available for purchase. To better manage page space and keep the presentation bal- anced, we introduced a new policy this year onmultiple books by one author: We feature only one, chosen by the author, and list other titles in the author note. In addition to 8 works of history or biography, we have 5 books on policy and issues, 19 memoirs, 14 works of poetry and fiction, 5 novels for young adults, and 3 children’s books. Another 8 titles under “How-To & Self-Help” include a Ukrainian cookbook and a variety of guides for everything from learning the Indonesian language to relocating to Africa as an African American. We also include a selection of recent books “of related interest” to diplomats and their families that were not written by FS authors. It takes a village to put this collection together. This year, it was written and assembled by Publications Coordinator Hannah McDaniel, Managing Editor Kathryn Owens, Senior Editor Susan Brady Maitra, and former FSJ staff Dmitry Filipoff and Donna Scaramastra Gorman. —Shawn Dorman, Editor in Chief Introduction T he Foreign Service Journal is pleased to present our 21st annual Foreign Service authors roundup. We compile “InTheir OwnWrite” for publication to cel- ebrate the wealth of literary talent within the Foreign Service community, and to give our readers a chance to support col- leagues by sampling their wares. The collection of titles here, in particular the memoirs, are also a terrific resource for anyone contemplating a career in international affairs. And it comes to you in time for holiday shopping. Each entry contains full publication details along with a brief commentary. All listings are for the paperback edition unless there is only a hardcover edition, and where an e-book is available, that is noted. This year our list of books written, edited, or translated by Foreign Service personnel and their family members stands at 62, down from 100 last year when, we assume, the products of COVID-19 isolation and the inspiration to put pen to paper were still in the pipeline. The list is not a definitive record of works by FS authors; as always, we rely on the authors them- selves to bring their books to our attention. If your recent book is not presented here, please let us know so we can add it to next year’s collection. We accept submissions for the HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY A New Embassy along an Ancient Route in Uzbekistan Henry L. Clarke, New Academia Publishing, 2022, $28/paperback, print only, 238 pages. Creating new embassies was a signifi- cant aspect of strategic engagement with newly formed republics after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In A New Embassy along an Ancient Route in Uzbekistan , Ambassador (ret.) Henry L. Clarke discusses the process of forming and strength- ening new diplomatic ties through his experience as the first U.S. ambassador to Tashkent. The formation of new countries and establishment of new embassies are not everyday occurrences. Fromweathering conflict with neighboring nations to the shift in the nation’s official language and alphabet, the road to stability after gaining independence involvedmany challenges, and U.S. support across political, economic, humanitarian, and other sectors proved crucial. This book is the 75th volume in the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series. Henry Clarke obtained degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard before entering the Foreign Service in 1967. In addition to Uzbekistan, he served in Germany, Nigeria, Romania, Russia, Israel, and Washington, D.C. He also worked as an adviser to the National War College at Fort McNair and contributed to restitution of property seized by Nazis and communists in Eastern Europe. In retirement, he worked in various capacities on U.S. missions to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq. He now resides in Virginia. Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence Nicholas Reynolds, Mariner Books, 2022, $29.99/hardcover, e-book available, 512 pages. Need to Know is a detailed history of the origins of America’s intelligence capability. Before 1940 the United States had only a few codebreakers and no organization. Author Nicholas Reynolds traces how the intelligence establishment we know today was built “from scratch” start- ing during the run-up to the Second World War. The storyline is supported by extensive research and includes an overview of the most notable characters involved, from Vincent Astor ILLUSTRATIONBYKEITHNEGLEY/THEISPOT