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03486aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 5DD62F460B6411EAA467CE0D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191120010135 008 190517t20192019nyuab db 000 0beng d 020 $a 1984883275 020 $a 9781984883278 035 $a (OCoLC)1102083548 040 $a FBR $b eng $e rda $c FBR $d OCLCO $d CLE $d JTH $d IUK $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us 050 4 $a E840.8.H64 $b P33 2019b 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Packer, George, $d 1960- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87839695 245 10 $a Our man : $b Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century / $c George Packer. 246 30 $a Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century 250 $a First large print edition. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House Large Print, $c [2019] 300 $a 880 pages (large print) : $b illustrations, map ; $c 24 cm 340 $n large print $2 rda 500 $a "Published ... in association with Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC"--Copyright page. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a 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 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. 600 10 $a Holbrooke, Richard C., $d 1941-2010. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82136364 650 0 $a Diplomats $z United States $v Biography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102280 650 0 $a Ambassadors $z United States $v Biography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100646 650 0 $a Statesmen $z United States $v Biography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111368 650 0 $a Large type books. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074712 655 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021025315.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20210428013724.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5DD62F460B6411EAA467CE0D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search