Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
(Book)

"A Borzoi book."

Includes notes on sources, notes, and list of illustrations

Includes bibliographical references.

Richard Holbrooke was the force behind the Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan wars, America's greatest diplomatic achievement in the post-Cold War era. He believed in a strong, generous foreign policy, and from his early days as an advisor in Vietnam, to he efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, he believed that the US should take the lead on the global stage. He was frustrated in his efforts to rise to the highest level in government by those who resented his tireless self-promotion and self-confidence. This biography, drawn from his diaries and papers, provides a revelatory portrait of an extraordinary and deeply flawed man, and the elite spheres of society and government that he inhabited. [From publisher's description]