Tibor Frank is Professor of History at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Between 1987 and 2001 he was Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara, UCLA, University of Nevada-Reno and Columbia University. His work includes Ethnicity, Propaganda, Myth-Making (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1999) and From Habsburg Agent to Victorian Scholar: G. G. Zerffi, 1820–1892 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000). In 2002, he was awarded the Humboldt Prize. 

Acknowledgments Foreword A Vermont Yankee in Regent Horthy’s Court: the Hungarian World of a U.S. Diplomat List of the Confidential Conversations of U.S. Minister John F. Montgomery, Budapest 1934–1941 Conversations Appendix Chronology of Events, 1933–1941 Biographical Notes Diplomatic Representatives in Budapest, 1933–1941 Bibliography List of Illustrations Index