The Foreign Service Journal, November 2022

34 NOVEMBER 2022 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL terms of its historical origins and effects. It is the 37th volume in the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Memoirs and Occasional Papers Series. “Only Desaix Anderson could have written ... the definitive history of Vietnam’s tempestuous relationship with the United States,” says Ted Osius, a career FSO and U.S. ambassador to Vietnam from 2014 to 2017. With more than four decades of personal and professional experience in Vietnam, Anderson reflects on the evolution of U.S.-Vietnamese relations with a critical lens, incorporating Vietnamese points of reference and encouraging the reader to consider the limits of American power. Desaix Anderson died in February 2021, just before the publication of this book. After service in the U.S. Navy, he joined the Foreign Service in 1962 and first served in Nepal. Then came six assignments in Vietnam, including as the first chargé d’affaires during the 1995 opening of U.S. Embassy Hanoi, and service as deputy chief of mission in Tokyo. He is the author of An American in Hanoi: America’s Reconciliation with Vietnam (2002) and was the longest-serving board member in the history of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. Eye on the World: A Life in International Service Anthony C.E. Quainton, Potomac Books, 2022, $34.95/hardcover, e-book available, 336 pages. Ambassador (ret.) Anthony C.E. Quainton served for more than 30 years in the U.S. Foreign Service under eight administrations, from 1960 to 1997. His assignments in 11 countries on six continents included four ambas- sadorships. Eye on the World , the 72nd volume in the ADST- DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, is his autobiography. Not simply the story of his upbringing and career, Eye on the World is a candid reflection on the making of foreign policy during eventful times, including U.S. policy toward India and Pakistan in the 1970s, covert wars in Latin America during the 1980s, and counternarcotics policies in Peru in the 1990s. In Ambassador (ret.) John Negroponte’s view, the book “should be of strong interest to those who lived the period as well as those aspiring to diplomatic careers of their own.” Amb. Anthony Quainton is Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at American University in Washington, D.C. During his Foreign Service career, he served as U.S. ambassador to Peru (1989-1992), Kuwait (1984-1987), Nicaragua (1982-1984), and the Central African Republic (1976-1978). In Washington, D.C., he served as coordinator for counterterrorism, deputy inspector general, assistant secretary of State for diplomatic security, and Director General of the Foreign Service. Chocolates for Mary Julia: Black Woman Blazes Trails as a Career Diplomat Judith Mudd-Krijgelmans, Xlibris, 2022, $20.99/paperback, e-book available, 424 pages. This memoir begins in 1975, when the author, a Black woman who came of age in the JimCrow era, joins the United States Information Agency (USIA) and moves to New Delhi, India, with her 5-year-old half-Indian daughter, Rekha. Chocolates for Mary Julia shares details of life and work in the Foreign Service of the 1970s and 1980s. Judith Mudd-Krijgelmans writes with humor and grace about meeting then–Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and learning how to edit videos in the American Center when USIA first began experimenting with this new format. She also writes about her struggles as a working single mom (How will Rekha cope when I take a monthlong assignment in another Indian city?), as an overweight woman looking for the right style (That belted leather jacket was a serious mistake!), and as a Black woman in a mostly white man’s world (How can I convince the boss to develop a program about civil rights after Roots is published in the United States?). Retired FSO Judith Mudd-Krijgelmans served in New Delhi, Mumbai, Dhaka, Taipei, Hong Kong, Brussels, Libreville, Bujumbura, and Brazzaville. She also wrote Flowers for Brother Mudd (2018). Death in Wartime China: A Daughter’s Discovery Judy Goodman Ikels, Wheatmark, 2022, $14.95/paperback, e-book available, 235 pages. Judy Goodman Ikels’ father, Bill Wallace, died before she was born in 1944. A World War II pilot, he sacri- ficed himself to save his seven crew members when he knew his plane was going down over China. Her mother