Our Man : Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
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Our Man : Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
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The work Our Man : Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Our Man : Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
- Title remainder
- Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
- Statement of responsibility
- by George Packer
- Title variation
- Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the brilliantly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan. 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 TK, 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"--Publisher's description
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 320.092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E840.8.H64
- LC item number
- P33 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- bibliography
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