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Derek H. Chollet

The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World Hardcover – 8 Nov. 2011

by Derek Chollet (Author), Samantha Power (Author)

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Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served as assistant secretary of state for both Asia and Europe, and as ambassador to both Germany and the United Nations. He had a key role in brokering a peace agreement among warring factions in Bosnia that led to the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995. Widely regarded to possess one of the most penetrating minds of any modern diplomat of any nation, Holbrooke was also well known for his outsized personality, and his capacity to charm and offend in equally colossal measures. In this book, the friends and colleagues who knew him best survey his accomplishments as a diplomat, activist, and author. Excerpts from Holbrooke's own writings further illuminate each significant period of his career. The Unquiet American is both a tribute to an exceptional public servant and a backstage history of the last half-century of American foreign policy.

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"Fascinating... a must-read for anyone interested in public service and US foreign policy."
--Financial Times

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ PublicAffairs,U.S.; 1st edition (8 Nov. 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1610390784
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1610390781
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 2,358,174 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 2,361 in Diplomacy
- 18,105 in Political Biographies
- 68,143 in Historical Biographies (Books)

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Samantha Power
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Samantha Power is a leading global voice on human rights and international affairs. She served for four years as President Barack Obama’s human rights adviser and then, from 2013 to 2017, in his Cabinet and as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Power is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘A Problem From Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide, and has been named one of TIME’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ and one of Forbes’ ‘100 Most Powerful Women’. Currently a professor of practice at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, she lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Cass Sunstein, and their two children. Power immigrated to the United States from Ireland at the age of nine.
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Fascinating insider portrait

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I learned an enormous amount about "life at the top". Sometimes the informal writing style jarred, but it also made the excursions into the less appealing sides of the subject's life more approachable. There were years when I would have like to have known more, and a greater insight into money-making in the '80s, but overall it was a gripping read. The opening sections in Vietnam were particularly good.

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