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.
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.
Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating
self-willed glory... Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a
Shakespearean tragicomedy… Our Man not only revitalizes but in some
ways reinvents the art of journalistic biography… If you could read
only one book to comprehend America’s foreign policy and its
quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would
be it.
*New York Times*
Rarely in recent years has a work of non-fiction so clearly,
ruthlessly, compassionately shown such a prominent person’s life
from the inside out. It is a masterwork about diplomacy, government
and the world.
*Guardian, *Books of the Year**
Holbrooke in all his capacious brilliance and arrogance has been
captured by George Packer… [Our Man] is, I strongly feel, a
classic.
*Washington Post*
Outstanding... Our Man is one of the most fascinating dissections
of US power – its strengths and serious weaknesses – I’ve read.
*Guardian*
Packer is one of the most talented non-fiction writers in the US.
In his hands, a biography of a diplomat who never quite made it to
the top becomes a history of modern America’s entanglement with the
world.
*Financial Times, *Books of the Year**
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