Research Catalog

Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century

Title

Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century / George Packer.

Author

Packer, George, 1960-

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFE 19-4909	Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

Details

Description

592 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm

Summary

"From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the vividly 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, wholly 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"--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.
Biography.

Note

"A Borzoi book."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-588).

Contents

Dreams so far away -- Vietnam : how can we lose when we're so sincere? -- How does he do it? -- Swallow hard -- Since I am now hopeless -- Bosnia : they'll come for me -- We are close to our dreams -- You're either going to win or fall -- Afghanistan : everything is different--and everything is the same.

Call Number

JFE 19-4909

ISBN

9780307958020
0307958027
9780307958037
0307958035

LCCN

2018030382

OCLC

1043052821

Author

Packer, George, 1960- author.

Title

Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century / George Packer.

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-588).

Other Form:

Online version: Packer, George, 1960- Our man. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019] 9780307958037 (DLC) 2018031100

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4909

View in Legacy Catalog