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May 7, 2019 · Lately, I've been reading "Our Man," by George Packer, a highly anecdotal and incomplete biography of Richard Holbrooke, whom all of us of a certain age in the Foreign Service know well. The book is fascinating and maddening at the same time.
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May 9, 2019 · OUR MAN Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century By George Packer. Richard Holbrooke was a large man with gargantuan appetites — for food and women and movies and acclaim and, above ...
May 2, 2019 · Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer is published by Cape (£25). To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com . Free UK p&p on all online orders over £15.
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May 7, 2019 · George Packer. 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 ...
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May 26, 2020 · Reviewed: George Packer, Our Man — Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (7 May 2019, Alfred Knopf, 609 pp., ISBN: 0307958027, Kindle Edition) I learned a lot from New Yorker‘s George Packer about one of my favorite passions — foreign policy and the balance of national interests with humanitarian concerns.
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Finalist: Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, by George Packer (Alfred A. Knopf) Share: Twitter Facebook Email An inventive, compulsively readable life of a complicated man of considerable talents and personal failings that offers extraordinary insights into the inner workings of Washington's foreign policy ...
May 12, 2019 · Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer is published by Jonathan Cape (£25). To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p ...
