Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

George Packer

608 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics informative reflective medium-paced

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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...

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