Chasing the Flame
Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
$37.99
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2009
Summary
The biography of a brave and brilliant diplomat and the story of the troubled world we live in today.
Sergio Vieira de Mello—a humanitarian, peacemaker, and state builder—was at the center of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Born in 1948, just as the post-World War II order was taking shape, he died in a terrorist attack on UN headquarters in Iraq in 2003 as the battle lines in the twenty-first century’s first great polarizing struggle were being draw…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141020815 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141020814 |
| Author: | Samantha Power |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 461g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 29mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘Chasing the Flame is a brilliantly researched biography about an extraordinary man’ - Richard Beeston, The Times ‘a compelling work, culminating in a brilliant and moving reconstruction of Vieira de Mello’s doomed last mission in Iraq’ - Rosemary Righter, TLS
About The Author
Samantha Power
Samantha Power is Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy Practice at Harvard University’s School of Government. Her book, “A Problem from Hell”- America and the Age of Genocide (2003), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Prize for the best book in U.S. foreign policy. Power is also the recipient of two National Magazine Awards.
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