Footnotes to History

About the Book

FOOTNOTES TO HISTORY presents a riveting account of Feldman’s life in LAW and DIPLOMACY ranging from the Vietnam War to the Iran Hostage Crisis and the Two Iraq Wars. His oral history is a lively read inside the room with Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger along with Feldman’s personal take on U.S. foreign policy, candid reflections on his relations with senior officials, as well as his (very different) encounters with Klaus Barbie at Lima, Tippi Hedrin at Rome and Prince Bandar in Virginia.

About the Author

Mark B. Feldman served as a State Department attorney for sixteen years rising to Deputy and Acting Legal Adviser (1974-81); taught international arbitration and foreign relations law at Georgetown, and has practiced law in Washington D.C. for six decades. His State Department legacy includes the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Iran Claims Tribunal, U.S. maritime boundaries with Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Russia and the 1970 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property.