Books
February, 1967
As a man who went out into the Cold War--not as a spy but as a diplomat--writer John Bartlow Martin came back with a writer's dream: a personal account of what it was like to be U. S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic after the assassination of Trujillo, to return home after the ouster of democrat Juan Bosch, and to rush back when the tragic island nation was being ripped apart in the civil war of 1964. In Overtaken by Events (Doubleday), Martin presents his account in what seems to be excess...
