Today Vietnam is one of America’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.
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—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’s
extraordinary renaissance.
With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.
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