Off to Save the World: How Julia Taft Made a Difference

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Ann Blackman ISBN: 9781465991317
Publisher: Ann Blackman Publication: November 1, 2011
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Ann Blackman
ISBN: 9781465991317
Publisher: Ann Blackman
Publication: November 1, 2011
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

For more than three decades, Julia Taft was one of the United States’ top humanitarian relief experts, friend and ally of the world’s most impoverished people. She was, simply put, a legend in her field.

In Off to Save the World: How Julia Taft Made a Difference a mosaic of a witty, determined and idealistic woman who not only ran some of the most dramatic relief efforts of her generation, but also influenced the debate at home as the international spotlight moved from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to the collapse of the Soviet Union to ethnic conflicts in Africa and the former Yugoslavia.

There are poignant stories and funny ones, heroic moments and terrifying ones, all woven into an emotional and adventurous life. There was no one like Julia Taft.

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For more than three decades, Julia Taft was one of the United States’ top humanitarian relief experts, friend and ally of the world’s most impoverished people. She was, simply put, a legend in her field.

In Off to Save the World: How Julia Taft Made a Difference a mosaic of a witty, determined and idealistic woman who not only ran some of the most dramatic relief efforts of her generation, but also influenced the debate at home as the international spotlight moved from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to the collapse of the Soviet Union to ethnic conflicts in Africa and the former Yugoslavia.

There are poignant stories and funny ones, heroic moments and terrifying ones, all woven into an emotional and adventurous life. There was no one like Julia Taft.

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