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Hammarskjold : a life / Roger Lipsey.

Title
Hammarskjold : a life / Roger Lipsey.
Author
Lipsey, Roger, 1942-
Publication
Ann Arbor, MI : Univ Of Michigan Press, c2013

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Book/TextRequest in advance D839.7.H3 A3 2013Off-site

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Description
xix, 738 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., front.; 24 cm.
Summary
Drawing from little explored archives and personal correspondence, chronicles the life of the second secretary general of the United Nations who was killed in 1961 while en route to ceasefire negotiations in the Congo.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961
  • United Nations > Biography
  • 1955-1965
  • 1900-talet
  • World politics > 1955-1965
  • Statesmen > Sweden > Biography
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [693]-709) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Mr. Hammarskjöld -- Steep Swedish hills -- You asked for burdens -- The fire of clear eyes : 1950-1952 -- Monastic enough? -- Possibility never touched upon -- This little republic -- A swarm of ideas -- It takes life to love life -- Un chinois aux yeux bleus -- Causal chains -- Unrighteous shooting wars -- Into all corners of the earth -- Face the cold winds -- Like fighting an avalanche -- Have mercy upon our efforts -- Far away a heart stops -- Afterword: The spirit in public life.
ISBN
  • 0472118900
  • 9780472118908
OCLC
  • 819717666
  • SCSB-12204432
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library