Books, Arts & Manners: Sharp Eye in Paris

Ambassador in Paris: The Reagan Years, by Evan G. Galbraith (Regnery Gateway, 160 pp., $16.95)

Apolitical appointee as ambassador is bound to incur the jealous disapproval of the professionals when he speaks up on behalf of the President who appointed him; yet he would be failing his President if he did not. Evan Galbraith was Ronald Reagan’s man in Paris. He duly spoke up, and duly irritated the State Department and other diplomatic ministries.