Rogue diplomats: the proud tradition of disobedience in American foreign policy

"It Is Glory to Have Broken Such Infamous Orders": Adams, Jay, and Franklin Midwife the Republic

"Service without Authority": and Monroe Buy Louisiana

"Instructions or No Instructions": Trist Makes Peace with Mexico

"I Have Now Read the Dispatch, But I Do Not Agree with It": Page Preserves America's "Special Relationship"

"No 'Rubber Stamp' Ambassador": Kennedy Appeases the Dictators ictators

"We Can't Fire Him": Lodge Engineers a Coup.