Kill the Gringo: The Life of Jack Vaughn--American Diplomat, Director of the Peace Corps, Us Ambassador to Colombia and Panama, and Con

"American diplomat, director of the Peace Corps, US ambassador to Colombia and Panama, and conservationist"--Cover.

About the author

Jack Hood Vaughn served as director of the Peace Corps, ambassador to Panama and Colombia, and Assistant Secretary of State during the sixties. Jack had a front-row seat for some of the most dramatic international events of the later half of the twentieth century, including the US intervention in the Dominican Republic, the Iranian revolution, and the reign of Panamanian dictators Omar Torrijos and Manuel Noriega. Jack survived multiple plane crashes, muggings, and assassination attempts.

Jane Vaughn Constantineau is Jack Hood Vaughn’s daughter. A graduate of Williams College and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, she lives with her family in San Diego.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Constantineau, Jack Hood Vaughn
• Publisher: Rare Bird Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2017
• EAN: 9781945572173
• ISBN: 978-1-945572-17-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 213 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Geschichte, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Entwicklungsländer, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Biography / Autobiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries