It takes the average reader 9 hours and 49 minutes to read Mr. Ambassador by Edward J. Perkins
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
“Apartheid South Africa was on fire around me.” So begins the memoir of Career Foreign Service Officer Edward J. Perkins, the first black United States ambassador to South Africa. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan gave him the unparalleled assignment: dismantle apartheid without violence. As he fulfilled that assignment, Perkins was scourged by the American press, despised by the Afrikaner government, hissed at by white South African citizens, and initially boycotted by black South African revolutionaries, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His advice to President-elect George H. W. Bush...
Mr. Ambassador by Edward J. Perkins is 576 pages long, and a total of 147,456 words.
This makes it 194% the length of the average book. It also has 180% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 25 minutes to read Mr. Ambassador aloud.
Mr. Ambassador is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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