A reason to get up in the morning

the long version

"A Reason to Get Up In The Morning is a wonderful, irreverent, and sometimes hilarious memoir of an American career diplomat, a dramatic account of how American Cold War policies were carried out in the field by one dedicated Foreign Service Officer, James M. Rentschler. It is therefore a view from the trenches, a view often different from what was reported in The New York Times and the Washington Post. A Reason To Get Up In The Morning is written with style, wit, and elegance by an American diplomat who served his country faithfully and well during the last four decades of the 20th Century."--Page 4 of cover.