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Apr 23, 2015 · April 22, 2015. WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2010, Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, began recording a secret audio diary ...
Aug 16, 2021 · President Joe Biden has wanted the US to get out of Afghanistan for years. When Biden was vice president in 2010, he told a top US diplomat — Richard Holbrooke — that it was time to pull ...
*Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography* *Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize* "Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it ...
May 7, 2019 · Packer, who knew Holbrooke personally, celebrates the man’s larger-than-life qualities while remaining clear-eyed about his profound flaws. And by the end, he convincingly argues that Holbrooke’s passing signifies the loss of something larger still, a sense of American possibility, now seemingly out of reach."—
Dec 14, 2010 · How Holbrooke stopped Bosnia's war. Richard Holbrooke's arrival in the Balkans in 1995 was a transformative moment - the moment the Americans seized control of the peace process from the Europeans ...
Dec 14, 2010 · Richard Holbrooke, who spent much of his career interfacing with troubled spots around the world, most recently serving as the Obama administration's point man on Afghanistan and Pakistan, died ...
Dec 14, 2010 · Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke was born in Manhattan on April 24, 1941, to Dr. Dan Holbrooke, a physician, and the former Trudi Moos. He attended Scarsdale High School, where his best friend was ...
