An American Diplomat in Franco Spain in the Media

The recent release of Michael Aaron Rockland’s An American Diplomat in Franco Spain has garnered plenty of media coverage. Here is a sampling of the attention the book and author have received.

Michael Rockland was selected as the The Daily Targum “Person of the Week” on Friday, September 21, 2012. An article entitled “U professor reflects on work in Franco Spain” covered a lecture that Michael Rockland gave at Rutgers University on September 20, 2012 about the book.

Allan Isaac, an associate professor of American studies at the University, said Rockland brings a unique and exciting view to the University.

“He brings an intimate view of historical eras and figures,” Isaac said. “[It is] an intimacy that complicates and humanizes them.”

Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences ran a feature piece entitled “An American Studies Scholar Looks Back on his Days as a Diplomat.” The feature has an interview with Michael Rockland.

The Morristown Green did a pre-event article about Michael Rockland and An American Diplomat in Franco Spain entitled “Risky business: Life as a diplomat, subject of talk by Morristown author who knows first-hand, Oct. 3” and an article covering the event entitled “Former diplomat recalls triumph and disaster in Morristown talk.”

The New Brunswick Patch covered Michael Rockland’s appearance at Rutgers University: Rutgers Professor Has Book Published About Diplomatic Life in Spain. Columnist Jennifer Bradshaw had this to say:

He meticulously recounts his adventures…which included ending up at a party in the presence of both movie starlet Ava Gardner and famed Nazi soldier Otto Skorzeny, a day spent in the sole company of Martin Luther King Jr., and his involvement in helping to mitigate the 1966 nuclear disaster at Palomares.

American Diplomat in Franco Spain by Michael Aaron Rockland is published by Hansen Publishing Group. An American Diplomat in Franco Spain is available as a trade paperback and as an ebook. The paperback can be ordered online from Amazon and Barnes & Noble and other online retailers. The ebook version of An American Diplomat in Franco Spain is available on the Kindle, the Nook, the iPad and other platforms.