Charles Trueheart joins Marc Selverstone, the Miller Center's director of presidential studies and co-chair of the Center’s Presidential Recordings Program, to discuss his new personal memoir, examining the United States’ plunge into the Vietnam War from an entirely new vantage point.

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The publication of CHARLES TRUEHEART's Diplomats at War follows his distinguished career as a journalist and nonprofit executive. After writing for numerous news publications, Trueheart became associate director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University and director of the Kennedy School’s Public Affairs Forum in 1983. In 1986, Trueheart returned to journalism as a reporter for The Washington Post, serving as its principal writer on books, authors, the publishing industry, and literary and intellectual issues, and later as its Canada correspondent and Paris correspondent. In 2007, Trueheart was appointed director of the American Library in Paris, the largest English-language library in Europe. He retired in 2017. Trueheart is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Amherst College.