In this rare look into the diplomatic life as it is actually led, Barbara Sullivan shares her journey from shy, inhibited girl from the Bronx to senior ranking U. S. Foreign Service officer. Coming from the 1950s, when the goal of most women was to marry, have children and live in the suburbs, Sullivan's magic carpet ride from a simple, working class upbringing in New York to a string of captivating locales, such as Indonesia, West Africa and Saudi...