What Kind of an Ambassador Was the Ambassador of Ukraine in ‘Lessons from the Side’?
The fact that I got to this point in the book with my heart in my throat illustrates how deftly Yovanovitch tells his life story. Born in Montreal, he takes us from a childhood in Kent, Conn., with assignments in Somalia, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia. He started out as a young, introverted newbie in the …