Nothing Is Impossible: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Nothing Is Impossible: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam

Today Vietnam is one of America&#8217;s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives.<br> &#160;<br> Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson&#8212;the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation&#8217;s extraordinary renaissance.&#160;<br> &#160;<br> With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry,&#160;<i>Nothing Is Impossible</i>&#160;tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.

<div>TED OSIUS, a diplomat for thirty years, served from 2014 to 2017 as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, a country he has known and loved since 1995.&#160;Only the second gay career diplomat in U.S. history to achieve the rank of ambassador, Osius went to Vietnam with his husband and children.<br> &#160;<br> JOHN FORBES KERRY is a former secretary of state and five-term U.S. senator.&#160;He is the author of&#160;<i>A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America, The New War</i>,&#160;<i>This Moment on Earth</i>, and&#160;<i>Every Day Is Extra</i>. Kerry serves as the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in the Biden-Harris administration.</div>