Diplomat in Khaki

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor emeritus of international relations and history at Boston University, a colonel in the U.S. Army (retired), and the co-founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is the author of eleven books.

"[Diplomat in Khaki is] superb diplomatic history on the one hand and an engaging portrait of the interwar Army on the other."--Army "Diplomat in Khaki offers a new perspective on the Army as an institution in American society. Even though the subject of this study is the life of a career Army officer, this work should make its way into the literatures of American diplomacy and of Progressivism, as well as that of military biography."--Parameters "This useful biography, well written and thoroughly researched, traces the activities of a regular army officer whose career reflected the changing role of the military during the twentieth century."--Journal of American History "A most interesting and well-told story."--American Historical Review "A biography of a lesser-known military career man, this book chronicles McCoy's incredibly rich life of service to his country."--Choice "McCoy is an important prism through which to view the purposes and frustrations of America's efforts to deal with the Latin world, Asia, and parts of the Middle East. He was at the epicenter of much of the diplomacy of the period with the underdeveloped world."-- Allan R. Millett, author For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States of America 1607-1983 "McCoy participated in major events at home and around the world from the 1890s to the era of the Korean War. This gracefully written volume will be read by all serious military and diplomatic historians, as well as by military sociologists who wish to know more about the history of American military elites."--J. Garry Clifford, author of The First Peacetime Draft and The Citizen Soldiers