Bibliograph

The man on whom nothing was lost, the grand strategy of Charles Hill, Molly Worthen

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The man on whom nothing was lost, the grand strategy of Charles Hill, Molly Worthen

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The man on whom nothing was lost

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Molly Worthen

Sub title

the grand strategy of Charles Hill

Summary

Psychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen's remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student and teacher, biographer and subject. As a Yale freshman, Worthen found herself deeply fascinated by worldly-wise professor Charles Hill, a former diplomat who had shaped American foreign policy in his forty-year career as an adviser to Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali, among others. Hill was never afraid to tell students how to think or what to do, and the Grand Strategy seminar he co-taught had developed a cult following. The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost is at once the biography of a political insider and the story of how its author evolved as she wrote it. In a moving, highly original work, Worthen conveys the joy and the heartache of uncovering the human being behind one's idol

Target audience

adult

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