The Last American Diplomat

Can John D. Negroponte be described as ''The Last American Diplomat''? In a career spanning 50 years of unprecedented American global power, he was the last of a dying breed of patrician diplomats - devoted to public service, a self-effacing and ultimate insider, whose prime duty was to advise, guide and warn - a bulwark of traditional diplomatic realism against ideologue excess.

Negroponte served ...