Our Man
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Our Man
| Full title | Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century |
|---|---|
| Author | George Packer |
| Published | 2019 |
| Pages | 664 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Packer’s life of Richard Holbrooke — Vietnam, Bosnia, Afghanistan — used as a vehicle for the rise and exhaustion of American liberal interventionism, told by someone with the diaries. |
Where I heard about it
- A crowd-sourced X thread — in the replies to @SpencrGreenberg asking “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” (the thread, June 2025), listed as “Our Man — George Packer”; the full set of replies is on A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).
Connections
- Foreign Policy — The subject the life is a vehicle for.
- Biography — The form.
- Institutions — The State Department Holbrooke fought his whole career.
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
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