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Sketches from Life
Robert W. Duemling
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Description for Sketches from Life
Hardback. Robert W. Duemling offers "sketches" of notable figures whom he has befriended over the course of his thirty-year career in the U.S. State Department and service as director of the National Building Museum, luminaries in the arts, architecture, politics, and diplomacy. Num Pages: 128 pages, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BG; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 331.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442220133
SKU
V9781442220133
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About Robert W. Duemling
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, ... Read more
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