{"product_id":"peacemaker-von-thant-myint-u","title":"Peacemaker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Essential reading for anyone interested in the origins and possibilities of our current global crisis' Rory Stewart, author of \u003ci\u003ePolitics on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma' William Dalrymple\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn December 1971, after having stepped down as the United Nations' longest-serving Secretary-General, U Thant was ranked the sixth 'most admired man' in America, so why he is largely forgotten today?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePeacemaker\u003c\/i\u003e, Thant Myint-U traces his grandfather's rise from schoolteacher in a small Burmese backwater in 1947 to celebrity at the centre of global of politics just two decades later. He reveals U Thant's integral yet forgotten roles in some of the twentieth centuries' most critical crises - from battling white supremacist mercenaries in the Congo and mediating a peaceful end to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to ensuring the ceasefire held after the 1967 Six-Day War - and details the shifting world order that U Thant affected. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite U Thant's popularity as a peacemaker, his unrelenting efforts to end the fighting in Vietnam - on terms very different from those desired by Lyndon Johnson's White House - made him an enemy of many in the American national security establishment, sowing the seeds of his downfall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once rigorous and hugely entertaining, \u003ci\u003ePeacemaker \u003c\/i\u003eis an intimate biography that not only attests to the power of hope, peace and individual actions in times of uncertainty, but also chronicles a golden age of diplomacy: a time when people believed that it was only by coming together that we could tackle the biggest threats posing humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781838958954\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eU Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781838958954","offer_id":54186899079493,"sku":"9781838958954","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/1d1dd0d1-dc81-4b60-86a7-38f56a825c41.jpg?v=1781496281","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/peacemaker-von-thant-myint-u","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}