The Embassy in Grosvenor Square

ANDREW BOXER Head of History and Director of Studies at Eastbourne College, East Sussex, UK JAMES CAMERON Ph.D. student in History at the University of Cambridge, UK JONATHAN COLMAN Lecturer in International History at the University of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. NICHOLAS J. CULL Professor of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA JOHN DUMBRELL Professor of Government at Durham University, UK MARTIN H. FOLLY Senior Lecturer in International History in the Isambard Centre for Historical Research in the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University, London, UK DAVID MAYERS Professor at Boston University, where he holds a joint appointment in the History and Political Science, USA THOMAS C. MILLS Lecturer in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Lancaster University, UK ALEX SPELLING Teaching Fellow in American History at the University of Aberdeen, UK PAUL TRICKETT PhD candidate at Coventry University, UK JOHN W. YOUNG Professor of International History at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Preface Acknowledgements Author Biographies Introduction; A.R.Holmes  & J.S.Rofe PART I: THE WAR TIME AMBASSADORS 1938-1946; J.S.Rofe Joseph P Kennedy 1938-40; J.S.Rofe John Gilbert Winant, 1941-45; D.Mayers W Averell Harriman 1946; M.H.Folly PART II: THE COLD WAR AMBASSADORS PART I 1946-1961; J.S.Rofe Lewis Williams Douglas, 1947-50; J.Colman Walter Sherman Gifford, 1950-53; J.Colman Winthrop Aldrich 1953-57; A.Boxer John Hay Whitney, 1957-61; T.C.Mills PART III: THE COLD WAR AMBASSADORS PART II 1961-1981; A.R.Holmes David KE Bruce, 1961-69; J.W.Young Walter H Annenberg, 1969-74; J.Cameron Elliot Richardson, 1975-76; A.Spelling Anne Armstrong, 1976-77; A.Spelling Kingman Brewster 1977-81; A.Spelling PART IV: THE COLD WAR CLOSERS 1981-1991; A.R.Holmes John J. Louis, Jr., 1981-83; P.Trickett Charles Price 1983-89; P.Trickett Henry E Catto Jr., 1989-91; N.J.Cull PART V: THE POST-COLD WAR AMBASSADORS 1991-2001; A.R.Holmes Raymond George Hardenbergh Seitz, 1991-94; A.R.Holmes William J Crowe 1994-97; A.R.Holmes Philip Lader 1997-2001; J.Dumbrell PART VI: POST 9/11 AMBASSADORS 2001-2008; A.R.Holmes William Stamps Farish III 2001-04; A.R.Holmes Robert Holmes Tuttle 2005-08; A.R.Holmes Appendices Table of Ambassadors, Presidents and Prime Ministers Index