Chasing the Flame : One Man's Fight to Save the World
by Power, SamanthaEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2008-12-02
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary
In this perfect match of author and subject, Pulitzer Prize–winner 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 has drawn 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.
Author Biography
Samantha Power is the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Table of Contents
| Chronology | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Displaced | p. 15 |
| "I Will Never Use the Word 'Unacceptable' Again" | p. 34 |
| Blood Running Blue | p. 55 |
| Hitting the Ground Running | p. 75 |
| "Black Boxing" | p. 97 |
| White Car Syndrome | p. 115 |
| "Sandwiches at the Gates" | p. 134 |
| "Serbio" | p. 159 |
| In Retrospect | p. 180 |
| Damned If You Do | p. 191 |
| "Giving War a Chance" | p. 225 |
| Independence in Action | p. 249 |
| Viceroy | p. 265 |
| Benevolent Dictator | p. 286 |
| Hoarding Power, Hoarding Blame | p. 303 |
| "A New Sergio" | p. 323 |
| "Fear Is a Bad Adviser" | p. 347 |
| "Don't Ask Who Started the Fire" | p. 374 |
| "You Can't Help People from a Distance" | p. 396 |
| Rebuffed | p. 421 |
| August 19, 2003 | p. 451 |
| Postmortem | p. 496 |
| Epilogue | p. 517 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 536 |
| Notes | p. 542 |
| List of Interviews | p. 592 |
| Index | p. 597 |
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