J. Robert Moskin is an award-winning historian and journalist. He has reported from the troubled spots around the globe: from Korea, the Middle East, eastern Europe, and three times from the Vietnam War --- including a wartime visit to enemy-held Hanoi. After earning degrees in American history from Harvard and Columbia, he served 19 years as an editor of Look magazine --- the last five as its Foreign Editor. He has also served as an editor of Collier’s, the Woman’s Home Companion, and the Saturday Review, as well as the editorial director of The Aspen Institute and The Commonwealth Fund. He and his wife Lynn live in New York City and Tyringham, Massachusetts.

Books by J Robert Moskin

American Statecraft: The Story of the U.S. Foreign Service

by J Robert Moskin - History, Nonfiction

AMERICAN STATECRAFT is a fascinating and comprehensive look at the unsung men and women of the U.S. Foreign Service whose dedication and sacrifices have been a crucial part of our history for over two centuries. Fifteen years in the making, veteran journalist and historian Moskin has traveled the globe conducting hundreds of interviews both in and out of the State Department to look behind the scenes at America’s “militiamen of diplomacy.”