HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Packer, George, 1960- author.
Subjects
Holbrooke, Richard C., 1941-2010.
Diplomats -- United States -- Biography.
Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Packer, George, 1960- author.
by title:
Our man : Richard Ho...
MARC Display
Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century / George Packer.
by
Packer, George, 1960- author.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Subjects
Holbrooke, Richard C., 1941-2010.
Diplomats -- United States -- Biography.
Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780307958020 hardcover :
0307958027 hardcover :
Description:
592 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Dreams so far away -- Vietnam : how can we lose when we're so sincere? -- How does he do it? -- Swallow hard -- Since I am now hopeless -- Bosnia : they'll come for me -- We are close to our dreams -- You're either going to win or fall -- Afghanistan : everything is different--and everything is the same.
Requests:
0
Summary:
"From the award-winning author of The Unwinding--the vividly told saga of the ambition, idealism, and hubris of one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history, set amid the rise and fall of U.S. power from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Richard Holbrooke was brilliant, wholly 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 of a muscular, generous foreign policy. 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. His story is thus the story of America during its era of supremacy: its strength, drive, and sense of possibility, as well as its penchant for overreach and heedless self-confidence. In Our Man, drawn from Holbrooke's diaries and papers, we are given a nonfiction narrative that is both intimate and epic in its revelatory portrait of this extraordinary and deeply flawed man, and the elite spheres of society and government he inhabited"--Jacket.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Copy
Status
Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
320.092 Holbrooke Pa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
320.092 Holbrooke Pa
2019
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kailua-Kona Public Library
Adult Biography
B Holbrooke Pa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Mililani Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
320.092 Holbrooke Pa
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.