The Imperial Mantle: The United States, Decolonization, and the Third

David D. Newsom is a former Under Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State and served as U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Indonesia, and the Philippines. After retiring from the Foreign Service, he became Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and professor and dean at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and professor in the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is currently a senior fellow at the University's Miller Center. He is the author of The Soviet Brigade in Cuba, Diplomacy and the American Democracy, and The Public Dimension of Foreign Policy.David D. Newsom is the author of 'The Imperial Mantle: The United States, Decolonization, and the Third', published 2001 under ISBN 9780253338341 and ISBN 0253338344.