Manual

Background Reading:

Shawn Dorman, ed. Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America (Washington, DC: American Foreign Service Association, 2003).

Patricia Hughes, The Royals and The Roaches: Living Abroad with the Government (Lincoln, NE, iUniverse, 2004).

Harry Kopp and Charles Gillespie, Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008).

Patricia Linderman and Melissa Brayer-Hess, eds., Realities of Foreign Service Life (Lincoln, NE, iUniverse, 2002).

Patricia Linderman, Melissa Brayer-Hess and Marlene Monfiletto Nice, eds. Realities of Foreign Service Life, Volume 2 (Lincoln, NE, iUniverse, 2007).

William Morgan and Stuart Kennedy, eds. American Diplomats: The Foreign Service at Work (Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2004).

Howard Simpson, Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer (Dulles, VA, Potomac Books, 1999).

United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions (Plum Book), 2008 Edition, Committee on Governmental Reform, U.S. Senate, available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plumbook/2008/2008_plum_book.pdf.