Brady Kiesling Book Signing in Santa Fe - Monday, October 16

by CKR

Those of you living in Santa Fe and environs might want to meet John Brady Kiesling on Monday, October 16.

He'll be doing a booksigning at Garcia Street Books at 5 pm.

Brady Kiesling is one of the three veteran career U.S. Foreign Service Officers who resigned in winter 2003 to protest the U.S. decision to invade Iraq. Kiesling's eloquent letter of resignation was published in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the New York Review of Books. At the time, he was political counselor at the American Embassy in Athens. Subsequently, he has been writing and speaking on U.S. foreign policy including as a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. He lives in Athens, Greece.

Kiesling's first book, Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower was published by Potomac Books, Inc. in August 2006. Believing that disasters like Iraq are foreseeable and preventable, he calls for a foreign policy realism that recognizes the limits of U.S. power and considers what is possible and affordable in a world that we share with more than six billion other people.

Stanley Hoffman, Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University described Diplomacy Lessons in a recent New York Review of Books article as written in a "clear and pungent style" and said it should be required reading for all students and practitioners of foreign policy. Ambassador Joe Wilson, former ambassador under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton and author of The Politics of Truth characterized Kiesling's new book as a "riveting account of American diplomacy at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century . . . and an important contribution to the history of our times."