Audit of an Empire: USIA and American Public Diplomacy in 1988 Beyond the Cold War: The Administration of George H.W. Bush Downsizing: Bill Clinton's First Term End Games: Bill Clinton's Second Term Conclusion: The Tragedy of US Public Diplomacy

Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together the story of the final decade in the life of the United States Information Agency, revealing the decisions and actions that brought the United States' apparatus for public diplomacy into disarray.

Nicholas J. Cull is a professor of Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.