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About this book
Ambassador William Luers takes us on a fascinating journey from Springfield, Illinois, to Naples, Moscow, Washington DC, Venezuela, and Czechoslovakia, and then to his presidency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, adventures in Cuba, and thereafter.
In his revelatory memoir Uncommon Company, William Luers shares stories of his incredible career as a US diplomat to European and Latin American nations, where he introduced art and culture to forge common ground and community, improving the lives of citizens in many countries closed to Western ideas. From touring the Soviet Union with playwright Edward Albee in the 1960s to bringing such famous writers and artists as John Updike, Arthur Miller, William Styron, Peter Matthiessen, Francine du Plessix Gray, Richard Diebenkorn, and Frank Stella to Venezuela and Prague during his ambassadorships in Venezuela and Czechoslovakia, Bill Luers' practice of cultural diplomacy became known as his ability to wield "soft power" that strengthened US relationships wherever he served.
After more than thirty years with the State Department, Luers brought his art expertise to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as its president, where he secured the Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works by such masters as Van Gogh, Picasso, and Cézanne, among many other accomplishments.
Uplifting and inspirational, William Luers' Uncommon Company is the true story of a life well lived, celebrating the challenges and triumphs found in the virtues of being a servant leader.
In his revelatory memoir Uncommon Company, William Luers shares stories of his incredible career as a US diplomat to European and Latin American nations, where he introduced art and culture to forge common ground and community, improving the lives of citizens in many countries closed to Western ideas. From touring the Soviet Union with playwright Edward Albee in the 1960s to bringing such famous writers and artists as John Updike, Arthur Miller, William Styron, Peter Matthiessen, Francine du Plessix Gray, Richard Diebenkorn, and Frank Stella to Venezuela and Prague during his ambassadorships in Venezuela and Czechoslovakia, Bill Luers' practice of cultural diplomacy became known as his ability to wield "soft power" that strengthened US relationships wherever he served.
After more than thirty years with the State Department, Luers brought his art expertise to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as its president, where he secured the Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works by such masters as Van Gogh, Picasso, and Cézanne, among many other accomplishments.
Uplifting and inspirational, William Luers' Uncommon Company is the true story of a life well lived, celebrating the challenges and triumphs found in the virtues of being a servant leader.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Advance Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Beginnings
- Chapter 2: Edward Albee and John Steinbeck as Writers in Official Exchange with the USSR
- Chapter 3: Finding Their Way to the Light: Protean Dissidents
- Chapter 4: Dissent, Courage, and Repercussions: Andrei Amalrik
- Chapter 5: Diebenkorn, Khrushchev, Lenin, and Einstein
- Chapter 6: The Open Forum Panel
- Chapter 7: Looking South and Speaking Spanish: Venezuela, Part I
- Chapter 8: When a Friend Acts like an Enemy: Pinochet’s Chile and Operation Condor
- Chapter 9: US Ambassador: Venezuela, Part II
- Chapter 10: Looking for a Place in the Reagan Administration
- Chapter 11: US Ambassador: Czechoslovakia, Part I
- Photo Insert
- Chapter 12: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Part I
- Chapter 13: Reagan and Gorbachev
- Chapter 14: To the Velvet Revolution: Czechoslovakia, Part II
- Chapter 15: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Part II
- Chapter 16: Clinton and Castro: Dinner at the Styrons’
- Chapter 17: Fidel Castro: Doctrine of a Revolutionary
- Chapter 18: UNA-USA, the Iran Project, and Other International Art Programs
- Chapter 19: Uncommon Company
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Photo Credits
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright