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Strong Enough for Solitude

A religious order's milennium of self-denial

By Charles Trueheart | March 1, 2006

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Charles Trueheart's Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the Vietnam Conflict recently won the Douglas Dillon Award for the most distinguished book of the year on American diplomacy. He is a Scholar contributing editor and a former Washington Post correspondent in Paris.

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