"This is first-rate biography and first-rate history....It is a
book about the deepening and broadening of a rather shallow and
frivolous aristocrat who entered diplomacy as an escape after the
joys of Groton and Harvard....It is also a book about the coming of
age of American diplomacy between the world wars. Finally, and most
absorbingly, it is about the collision course with Japan from 1932
onward, when Grew arrived in Tokyo as our Ambassador."--The New
England Quarterly
"A well written biography....Sharpens our knowledge of
U.S.-Japanese relations."--CHOICE
"The book is full of meat and tells much of our recent history that
should not be forgotten."--Saturday Review
"Heinrichs has carefully detailed his subject's trek through
time....An excellent first effort in the field of diplomatic
biography."--The Journal of American History
"[A] carefully researched and well-written study."--The Review of
Politics
"The narrative is suspenseful. Heinrichs has gone so deeply into
the past that the reader relives it and shares Grew's anxieties
from moment to moment and month to month."--The New Yorker
"The scholarship for this work was tremendous."--Library Journal
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