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Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography* *Winner of the Los
Angeles Times Prize for Biography* *Winner of the 2019 Hitchens
Prize* Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating
self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a
Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to
comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into
quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it.--Walter
Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review By the end of the second
page, maybe the third, you will be hooked...There never was a
diplomat-activist quite like [Holbrooke], and there seldom has been
a book quite like this -- sweeping and sentimental, beguiling and
brutal, catty and critical, much like the man himself.--David M.
Shribman, The Boston Globe Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly
self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and
appetites. Admired and detested, 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. 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. But
his sharp elbows and tireless self-promotion ensured that he never
rose to the highest levels in government that he so desperately
coveted. His story is thus the story 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. In Our
Man, drawn from Holbrooke's diaries and papers, we are given a
nonfiction narrative that 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.
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