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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 post-war 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, the author'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.

HOLBROOKE, RICHARD C., 1941-2010--BIOGRAPHY --- DIPLOMATS--USA--BIOGRAPHY --- USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS

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La politique étrangère des États-Unis subit une mutation désastreuse, modifiant pour toujours le rôle de l’Amérique dans le monde. Les institutions diplomatiques souffrent de coupes budgétaires drastiques et les diplomates, qui ont permis les plus fines négociations et protégé des citoyens aux quatre coins du monde, sont démis de leurs fonctions du jour au lendemain. Des bureaux entiers du ministère des Affaires étrangères restent vides, alors qu’à l’extérieur, l’industrie et l’armée reprennent les rênes tenues autrefois par les artisans de la paix. Dans une exploration fascinante des coulisses du pouvoir, de Washington jusqu’aux recoins les plus isolés et dangereux de la planète – Afghanistan, Somalie, Corée du Nord notamment – l’éminent journaliste Ronan Farrow éclaire l’un des changements les plus conséquents et les moins compris de l’histoire de l’Amérique. Son expérience d’employé du ministère des Affaires étrangères nous dévoile aussi une vision personnelle des derniers défenseurs de l’État, dont Richard Holbrooke, qui a obtenu la paix en Bosnie avant de la tenter en Afghanistan. S’appuyant sur des documents jamais dévoilés, et enrichi d’interviews exclusives d’éminences politiques (de Henry Kissinger à Hillary Clinton), Paix en guerre nous alerte sur une profession en voie d’extinction et dont la dégradation a débuté pendant l’ère Bush après des décennies de politique de la lâcheté et de manque de vue à long terme.

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