About Craig Eisendrath, Ph.D.
Craig
graduated from college at age 18. At 22, he entered the US diplomatic service for the U.S. Department of State, and was assigned
to the United Nations Political Office. It was 1958, just after the United States had launched its first satellite,
that a senior State Department officer unexpectedly left.
Thus at age 22, Craig was given the extraordinary
job of managing United States international relations for outer space. To perform this assignment, he worked on
understanding and then developing international law concerning this vast new area.
At
that time, the Secretary General of the United Nations was the great Swedish diplomat
Dag Hammarskjöld, whose genius in devising the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East and whose tragic death in the
Congo made him Craig's icon as the ultimate civil servant.
To
Enter Jerusalem merges my own life, including a number of times staying in villages in Nicaragua under contra
attack, with Hammarskjöld, my hero.
Dr. Craig Eisendrath is
also an award-winning author and playwright. Dr. Eisendrath is the author of a number of fiction and non-fiction
books on foreign affairs in addition to To Enter Jerusalem, including War in Heaven: Stopping The Arms Race in Outer Space (New Press, March, 2007); Bush League Diplomacy (Prometheus, 2004), The Phantom Defense: America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion (Praeger, 2001) ; and National Insecurity: U.S. Intelligence after the Cold War (Temple University Press, 2000).
