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US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever
changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy
and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the
diplomats who make America's deals and protect its citizens around
the world are walking out in droves. Offices across the State
Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex
has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We're becoming
a nation that shoots first and asks questions later. In an
astonishing journey from the corridors of power in Washington, DC,
to some of the most remote and dangerous places on
earth-Afghanistan, Somalia, and North Korea among them-acclaimed
investigative journalist Ronan Farrow illuminates one of the most
consequential and poorly understood changes in American history.
His firsthand experience as a former State Department official
affords a personal look at some of the last standard bearers of
traditional statecraft, including Richard Holbrooke, who made peace
in Bosnia and died while trying to do so in Afghanistan. Drawing on
recently unearthed documents, and richly informed by rare
interviews with whistle-blowers, a warlord, and
policymakers-including every living former secretary of state from
Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton to Rex Tillerson-and now updated
with revealing firsthand accounts from inside Donald Trump's
confrontations with diplomats during his impeachment and candid
testimonials from officials in Joe Biden's inner circle, War on
Peace makes a powerful case for an endangered profession.
Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after decades of political
cowardice, shortsightedness, and outright malice-but it may just
offer America a way out of a world at war.
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.
All the while, Farrow and his producer faced a degree of resistance that could not be explained - until now. And a trail of clues revealed corruption and cover-ups from Hollywood, to Washington and beyond.
This is the untold story of the tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability and silence victims of abuse - and it's the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement.
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