In conversation with Patrick McGuinn, at Church of the Redeemer, 1:20 pm to 2:10 pm
About the author
Stuart E. Eizenstat served as chief White House domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter, as U.S. ambassador to the European Union, undersecretary of commerce, undersecretary of state, and deputy secretary of the treasury in the Clinton administration. He was special representative of the president and secretary of state on Holocaust issues in the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. He is the author of President Carter: The White House Years; The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces Are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States; and Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II. He is an international lawyer in Washington, DC, with Covington & Burling, LLP, and serves as chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council. He received the “Great Negotiator” award from Harvard Law School. This book is written in his personal capacity.
MFOB featured book: The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World
At a time when the world is in turmoil and American leadership is being challenged, Ambassador Eizenstat recounts in The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World, America’s most significant and consequential negotiations over the past 50 years. These include efforts to resolve conflicts from the Middle East peace process to “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, and lingering issues of World War II, from the reunification of Germany to justice for Holocaust survivors. He addresses the use of American military force as an instrument of diplomacy, from Vietnam to the Balkan Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, drawing lessons applicable to today’s conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
Eizenstat played a leading role in several of these negotiations, and he interviewed more than 125 United States and international leaders to provide a 360-degree view of international negotiations at the highest level, seen through the eyes of those most directly involved.
