Our Man
Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
by George Packer
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“@cityartssf 4/ But then I started it and this is one amazing book. Yes, you learn or relearn about every conflict from Vietnam to Afghanistan. But THE DISH. THE JUICY JUICY DISH, on so many DC/Hollywood/NYC figures. It's a salacious pageturner! It's a beach read. | Excellent writing, powerful personalities, profound policy lessons. A book well worth reading.”
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Politics, History, and Social Sciences.
Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, utterly selfabsorbed, 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 postCold War era. His power lay in an utter belief in himself and his idea of a muscular, generou...
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Clara Jeffery
“@cityartssf 4/ But then I started it and this is one amazing book. Yes, you learn or relearn about every conflict from Vietnam to Afghanistan. But THE DISH. THE JUICY JUICY DISH, on so many DC/Hollywood/NYC figures. It's a salacious pageturner! It's a beach read. | Excellent writing, powerful personalities, profound policy lessons. A book well worth reading.”
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