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May 9, 2019 · Informed by complete access to Holbrooke’s intimate diaries and letters, along with almost 250 interviews, the book overflows with the trait that was Holbrooke’s saving grace: an...
Jun 14, 2019 · It saved countless lives; it also salvaged humanity in the sense that it was a belated response to the Serb-run concentration camps for Bosnian Muslims — a horror grasped by Holbrooke when he...
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Jul 12, 2019 · Holbrooke was less a statesman or strategist than a character from a Philip Roth novel: a hustling, sweating, deeply imperfect, occasionally inspiring, mouth-full-shouting specimen of the human...
Jun 10, 2019 · But perhaps Lake understood him better than anyone. “What Holbrooke wants attention for is what he’s doing, not what he is. That’s a very serious quality and his saving grace.” When Holbrooke died, Lake slipped quietly in to his UN memorial in New York. *
Dec 17, 1995 · Lake says, "What Holbrooke wants attention for is what he's doing, not what he is -- that's a very serious quality, and it's his saving grace." Holbrooke had long sought to lead a major ...
May 1, 2024 · Richard Holbrooke (born April 24, 1941, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 13, 2010, Washington, D.C.) was an American diplomat who brokered the Dayton Accords (1995) to end the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (UN; 1999–2001), and was the special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009–10) in the administration of Pres. Barack Obama.
Dec 14, 2010 · Even Holbrooke's main opponent in the three-year conflict, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, expressed "sadness and regret" over the diplomat's unexpected passing following surgery for a tear ...
