Sandra Louise Vogelgesang (born 1942) was a senior foreign service officer and policy planner for the

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Life

She attended

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and

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. She served as a deputy assistant Secretary of State, and, from 1994 to 1997 she was U.S. Ambassador to

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, appointed by President

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. She is married to Geoffrey Wolfe.

Writings

* ''American Dream, Global Nightmare: The Dilemma of U.S. Human Rights Policy'', Norton, 1980, 272 pp, * ''Long Dark Night of the Soul: The American Intellectual Left and the Vietnam War'', Harper Collins, 1974, 249 pp,

References

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1942 births Living people American political writers People from Franklin County, Ohio Ambassadors of the United States to Nepal Cornell University alumni The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni American women ambassadors United States Foreign Service personnel 20th-century American diplomats 20th-century American women 21st-century American women {{US-gov-bio-stub