When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.As passionate as he was controversial, Holbrooke believed that the only way to bring peace to the Balkans was through a complex blend of American leadership, aggressive and cr...

For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures for Ideas: Brilliant Thinker Speak Their Minds. Featuring some the best thinkers from North America and around the world that have appeared on the program since its beginnings in 1965, Ideas: Bri...

Un vívido relato que nos acerca a una de las figuras más complejas y relevantes de la diplomacia estadounidense.Richard Holbrooke fue un actor principal en un período histórico de incuestionable trascendencia, marcado por el ascenso y por la caída del poder de Estados Unidos. En un vibrante relato, George Packer saca a la luz el idealismo y el propósito humanitario del controvertido diplomático enfrentados, paradójicamente, a su terquedad y su egolatría, y ahonda e...

Richard HolbrookeBriljant maar zelfingenomen, geliefd maar ook gehaat. De Amerikaanse diplomaat Richard Holbrooke (1941-2010) was een man vol tegenstrijdigheden, die uitgroeide tot een van de meest bepalende figuren in de recente Amerikaanse geschiedenis. En toch vervulde hij nooit zijn ambitie om toe te treden tot de hoogste regionen van de Amerikaanse overheid.Van zijn beginjaren als jonge adviseur in Vietnam in de jaren ’60 tot zijn laatste pogingen de oorlog in Afghan...

***Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography**Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography**Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it."--Walter Isaacson, The...

Der amerikanische Journalist George Packer beschreibt, wie die USA sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten aus der Diplomatie zurückgezogen haben, und dokumentiert den Rückgang des amerikanischen Einflusses in der Welt. Als Leitfigur dient ihm der 2010 verstorbene Spitzendiplomat Richard Holbrooke, in dessen Haltung und Persönlichkeit sein Land zum Vorschein kam: laut, tollpatschig, aber auch optimistisch, idealistisch und pragmatisch.Holbrooke wird bei Packer zu einer übergroßen, trag...

Richard Holbrooke, who died in December 2010, was a pivotal player in U.S. diplomacy for more than forty years. Most recently special envoy for Iraq and Afghanistan under President Obama, Holbrooke also served as assistant secretary of state for both Asia and Europe, and as ambassador to both Germany and the United Nations. He had a key role in brokering a peace agreement among warring factions in Bosnia that led to the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995.Widely regarded to possess one of...

***Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography**Winner of the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography**Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize*"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be it."--Walter Isaacson, The...

A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia, Israel—whose troubles haunt us still.Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize • Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize • Win...

The author of the best-selling Terror and Liberalism on the rise to power of the generation of 1968.The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, decades later, many in that radical generation had come into conventional positions of power: among them Bill Clinton (who repor...

Machinery’s Handbook, Pocket Companion, is a concise yet authoritative, highly useful reference that draws its content from the Machinery’s Handbook. Designed as a time saver, the Pocket Companion is an ideal quick resource for anyone in manufacturing, metalworking, and related fields for whom convenient access to just the most basic data is essential.The Pocket Companion draws on the wealth of tables, charts, and text in the Machinery’s Hand...

Since publication of the first edition more than 100 years ago, Machinery’s Handbook has been acclaimed as the most popular, bestselling engineering resource of all time. Universally considered the principal reference in the manufacturing, mechanical, and metalworking industries, the Handbook is the ultimate collection of essential information.A concise yet authoritative, highly useful reference that draws its content from the Machinery’s Hand...