Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Samantha Power's biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Brazilian United Nations diplomat who was killed in the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad. She follows his career through refugee crises and peacekeeping missions in Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor, and uses his life to examine what international institutions can and cannot do in the world's worst conflicts.
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