On The Front Lines of America's Foreign Assistance: From Seoul to Cairo; The Caribbean to the Khyber

During the height of the Cold War, American foreign assistance became a central instrument of diplomacy, development, and geopolitical strategy. In On the Front Lines of America's Foreign Assistance, Theodore "Ted" Carter offers a firsthand account of life inside the U.S. Agency for International Development during some of the most consequential decades of the twentieth century.

Beginning in 1965 as a young attorney in AID's Office of the General Counsel, Carter served for thirty years as a...