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Samantha Power’s New Book, Chasing the Flame
In May 2003, Sergio Vieira de Mello had just completed two and a half years as the United Nations’ chief envoy to East Timor. A charismatic and widely admired Brazilian-born diplomat who had served the UN for 35 years in some of the world’s worst humanitarian and political situations, Vieira de Mello had returned to Europe to take an appointment as High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations, a prestigious post he administered from Geneva. Depleted from his experience in East Timor, where he directed the country’s transition to independence, and ready for a break after three decades of living in war zones, Vieira de Mello was not enthusiastic when he learned he was favored to head up UN operations in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
But UN Secretary General Kofi Annan eventually prevailed upon Vieira de Mello, and on June 2 he arrived in Baghdad, the UN’s first envoy to post-Saddam Iraq. Over the course of the next two and a half months, Vieira de Mello and his small staff worked 80-h
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Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World
Samantha Power tackles the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose work for the U.N. before his 2003 death in Iraq was emblematic of moral struggle on the global stage. Power draws on a staggering breadth of research (including 400 interviews) to show us a heroic figure and the conflicts he waded into, from Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge to the slaughter in Bosnia to the war-torn Middle East. The result is a peerless portrait of humanity and pragmatism, as well as a history of our convulsive age.
Soon to be a Netflix biopic starring Wagner Moura (“Narcos”).
Praise
“An ambitious effort…[that] succeeds brilliantly.” ― The Washington Post
“Her book [has] the dramatic quality of a leaked memo. . . . Sergio Vieira de Mello, with his flaws and heroism, represents us at our best and at our most helpless.” ― Slate
“Power presents a fiercely precise, extraordinary dramatic biography. . . . Strongly argued, lacerating, and utterly human, this invaluable history will be
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“A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of American responses to atrocities throughout the twentieth century, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow “never again” repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Power’s debut book is a modern classic that has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy.
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Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World
In this best-selling biography, Samantha Power presents the definitive story of Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose work for the U.N. before his 2003 death in Iraq was emblematic of moral struggle on the global stage. Drawing on a staggering breadth of research, Chasing the Flame is “strongly argued, lacerating, and utterly human…the catalyst for soul searching and debate” ( Booklist ).
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The Unquiet American: Richard Holbrooke in the World
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