In the Nation's Service Maarten Ploeger Starting in the 1670s

Starting in the 1670s

exploring oneself

interviews

and what the underlying thinking was behind each set of stories

shaped the development of the Americas in significant ways

In the Nation's Service Maarten Ploeger Starting in the 1670sThe definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of the Cold War. Deftly solving critical but intractable national and global problems was the leitmotif of George Pratt Shultz's life. No one at the highest levels of the United States government did it better or with greater consequence in the last half of