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ISBN-13: | 9781610392150 |
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Publisher: | PublicAffairs |
Publication date: | 11/06/2012 |
Pages: | 400 |
Product dimensions: | 5.70(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
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Table of Contents
Preface Derek Chollet Samantha Power xi
Introduction Kati Marion 1
1 The Audacity of Determination 7
Thinker, Doer, Mentor, Friend Strobe Talbott 8
The Machine That Fails (Winter 1970-1971) 23
Foreword to Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (2003) 34
The Paradox of George F. Kennan (March 21,2005) Richard Holbrooke 39
2 The Journalist 43
Reporting Truth to Power E. Benjamin Skinner 44
That Magnificent Hunger Jonathan Alter 58
The Writing on the Wall (July 27,1961) 62
Washington Dateline: The New Battlelines (Winter 1973-1974) 65
Jack Frost Nipping at the Years (March 5,1975) Richard Holbrooke 72
3 Vietnam 75
Richard Holbrooke and the Vietnam War: Past and Prologue Gordon M. Goldstein 76
A Generation Conditioned by the Impact of Vietnam (December 20,1969) 96
A Little Lying Goes a Long Way (September 10, 1971) 99
Pushing Sand (May 3, 1975) 101
Our Second Civil War (August 28, 2004) 106
Why Vietnam Matters (2008) Richard Holbrooke 109
4 Asia in the Carter Years 115
Restoring Americas Role in Asia Richard Bernstein 116
Escaping the Domino Trap (September 7, 1975) 132
Conscience and Catastrophe (July 30,1984) 146
Much Too Tough to Be Cute (March 3,1997) 157
The Day the Door to China Opened Wide (December 15, 2008) Richard Holbrooke 159
5 Europe in the Clinton Years 163
Holbrooke, a European Power Roger Cohen 164
America, a European Power (March/April 1995) 176
Hungarian History in the Making (December 1999) 190
Berlin's Unquiet Ghosts (September 10,2001) Richard Holbrooke 194
6 Bosnia and Dayton 197
Ending a War Derek Chollet 198
Bosnia: The "Cleansing" Goes On (August 16, 1992) 209
With Broken Glass (April 25,1993) 212
Why Are We in Bosnia? (May 18,1998) 214
Foreword to The Road to the Dayton Accords (2006) 225
The Face of Evil (July 23,2008) Richard Holbrooke 235
7 The United Nations 239
Holbrooke in Turtle Bay James Traub 240
The United Nations: Flawed But Indispensable (November 2, 1999) 251
Last Best Hope (September 28,2003) Richard Holbrooke 257
8 Fighting HIV/AIDS 263
The Global HIV/AIDS Crisis John Tedstrom 264
AIDS: The Strategy Is Wrong (November 29, 2005) 274
Sorry, But AIDS Testing Is Critical (January 4,2006) Richard Holbrooke 278
9 Afghanistan and Pakistan 281
The Last Mission David Rohde 282
Rebuilding Nations (April 1,2002) 296
Afghanistan: The Long Road Ahead (April 2,2006) 300
Still Wrong in Afghanistan (January 23,2008) 303
Hope in Pakistan; The Problems Are Real, But So Is the Progress (March 21,2008) Richard Holbrooke 306
10 Mentor and Friend 309
All That's Left Samantha Power 310
A Sense of Drift, a Time for Calm (Summer 1976) 319
The Next President: Mastering a Daunting Agenda (September/October 2008) Richard Holbrooke 333
Notes 355
About the Contributors 359
Index 363