Thank you to #NetGalley, Robert Kaplan and the publisher for providing me with a digital copy of this book prior to publication in exchange for my review.   The Good American is the story of Bob Gersony. Gersony dropped out of high school, served in Vietnam where he was awarded a Bronze Star and spent more than 40 years as a humanitarian working in crisis zones around the world on behalf of the American people.  During this time he worked as a special contractor for the State Department, USAID and the UN.  He was sent to numerous countries including Vietnam, Uganda, North Korea, Nepal, Iraq and Guatemala to talk to people on the ground, the refugees, the displaced people, and gather the facts and develop a plan to make US foreign policy "a bit smarter and a bit more humane", working within ever changing constraints.    While interviewing people, Gersony would always pick out a characteristic of the person he was interviewing that set him apart from others so that he could later remember that person as special, as an individual.  Even though this book is the biography of Bob Gersony, it reads like an exciting adventure novel.  It is a testament to the difference that one man can make in the lives of millions as he conducted interview after interview, wrote report after report and helped presidential administrations do the right thing.  I highly recommend it.