The Resource Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century, George Packer
Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century, George Packer
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The item Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century, George Packer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 592 pages
- Note
- "A Borzoi book."
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780307958020
- Label
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Title
- Our man
- Title remainder
- Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Statement of responsibility
- George Packer
- Title variation
- Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Subject
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- Biographies
- Biography
- Diplomats -- United States -- Biography
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
- Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
- Holbrooke, Richard C, 1941-2010
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Packer, George
- Dewey number
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- 320.092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- E840.8.H64
- LC item number
- P33 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Holbrooke, Richard C
- Diplomats
- Ambassadors
- Statesmen
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
- Label
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century, George Packer
- Note
- "A Borzoi book."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [561]-588)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- 1043052821
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 592 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307958020
- Lccn
- 2018030382
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- Label
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century, George Packer
- Note
- "A Borzoi book."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [561]-588)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent.
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- 1043052821
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 592 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307958020
- Lccn
- 2018030382
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
Subject
- Biographies
- Biography
- Diplomats -- United States -- Biography
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
- Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
- Holbrooke, Richard C, 1941-2010
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
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