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Da uno dei più grandi scrittori di saggistica americani, un'epica saga dell'ascesa e della caduta del potere americano, dal Vietnam all'Afghanistan, raccontata attraverso la vita di un uomo. **VINCITORE DEL LOS ANGELES TIMES BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2019** **FINALISTA PER I NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2020** Richard Holbrooke è stato una delle figure più leggendarie e complicate della recente storia americana. Brillante, completamente egocentrico e dotato di energia e appetiti quasi disumani, era sia ammirato che detestato. Dai suoi giorni da giovane consigliere in Vietnam ai suoi ultimi sforzi per porre fine alla guerra in Afghanistan, Holbrooke incarnava l'impulso americano del dopoguerra ad assumere la guida sulla scena mondiale. Fu la forza dietro gli accordi di Dayton che posero fine alle guerre nei Balcani, il più grande successo diplomatico americano nell'era post-Guerra Fredda. Il suo potere risiedeva in una totale fiducia in se stesso e nella sua idea di una politica estera muscolosa e generosa. Ma i suoi gomiti affilati e la sua instancabile autopromozione gli hanno impedito di raggiungere i massimi livelli del governo che tanto disperatamente desiderava. La storia di Holbrooke è la storia dell'ascesa e della caduta dell'America durante la sua era di supremazia: la sua forza, la sua spinta e il suo senso di possibilità, così come la sua inclinazione all'eccesso e all'incosciente sicurezza di sé. Basandosi sui diari e sui documenti di Holbrooke, la narrazione di George Packer è sia intima che epica nel suo ritratto rivelatore di quest'uomo straordinario e profondamente imperfetto, e delle sfere d'élite della società e del governo in cui ha vissuto. UN LIBRO DELL'ANNO PER GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR
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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.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man.From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man.**WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2019****FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2020**Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history. Brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites, he was both admired and detested. 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. 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. But his sharp elbows and tireless self-promotion ensured that he never rose to the highest levels in government that he so desperately coveted.Holbrooke's story is the story of the rise and fall 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. Drawing on Holbrooke's diaries and papers, George Packer's narrative 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.A GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of America's greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man. Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781784704216
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