Our Man

Produktbeschreibung

The American diplomat, writer and banker Richard Holbrooke's life experience across the conflicts in Vietnam, Afghanistan and American international actions in between is explored by author of "The Unwinding" George Packer, illustrating the rise and fall of American power. 

Kritik

Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory... Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... Our Man not only revitalizes but in some ways reinvents the art of journalistic biography... If you could read only one book to comprehend America's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it. Walter Isaacson New York Times 

Autoreninfo

George Packer is a staff writer for the Atlantic and a former staff writer for the New Yorker. He is the author of The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline, which was a New York Times bestseller and won a National Book Award. His other nonfiction books include The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, Blood of the Liberals, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, which won the Los Angeles Times Biography Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards. He has also written two novels, The Half Man and Central Square. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Harper's, and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.