About: Peter Bridges

Profile:

Peter Bridges holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Columbia University. A retired Foreign Service officer, his Safirka: An American Envoy (The Kent State University Press, 2000) relates his experiences as American ambassador to Somalia. Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel (The Kent State University Press, 2002) is the biography of the most influential Confederate editor during the Civil War. Bridges has published more than seventy articles and essays that deal mainly with history and foreign affairs.

Books by Peter Bridges:

Donn Piatt

in Biography & Diplomatic Studies & History

Pen of Fire

in Civil War Era

Safirka

in Diplomatic Studies