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Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Hardcover)
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Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Hardcover)
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From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of
the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan,
told through the life of one man. **WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2019** **FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS
CIRCLE AWARDS 2020** Richard Holbrooke was one of the most
legendary and complicated figures in recent American history.
Brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman
energy and appetites, he was both admired and detested. From his
days as a young adviser in Vietnam to his last efforts to end the
war in Afghanistan, Holbrooke embodied the postwar American impulse
to take the lead on the global stage. He was the force behind the
Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest
diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era. His power lay in
an utter belief in himself and his idea of a muscular, generous
foreign policy. But his sharp elbows and tireless self-promotion
ensured that he never rose to the highest levels in government that
he so desperately coveted. Holbrooke's story is the story of the
rise and fall of America during its era of supremacy: its strength,
drive, and sense of possibility, as well as its penchant for
overreach and heedless self-confidence. Drawing on Holbrooke's
diaries and papers, George Packer's narrative is both intimate and
epic in its revelatory portrait of this extraordinary and deeply
flawed man, and the elite spheres of society and government he
inhabited. 'Rarely in recent years has a work of non-fiction so
clearly, ruthlessly, compassionately shown such a prominent
person's life from the inside out. It is a masterwork about
diplomacy, government and the world' Anand Giridharadas, Guardian
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