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“By the end of the second page, maybe the third, you will be hooked…There never was a diplomat-activist quite like [Holbrooke], and there seldom has been a book quite like this — sweeping and sentimental, beguiling and brutal, catty and critical, much like the man himself.”–David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe
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.
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.
May 28, 2019 · 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.
May 26, 2020 · What’s called the American century was really just over half a century, and that was the span of Holbrooke’s life. It began with the Second World War and the creative burst that followed—the United Nations, the Atlantic alliance, containment, the free world—and it went through dizzying lows and highs, until it expired the day before ...
May 9, 2019 · From one of America’s greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man.**WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2019****FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2020**Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history.
Aug 13, 2019 · Our Man, in a sense, is a book-length version of one of these vignettes. It’s a study of how the intertwined selfishness and idealism of a liberal generation that came of age during the 1960s ...
