Interventions: A Life in War and Peace

✍ Scribed by Annan, Kofi

• Book ID: 108302635
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101595961

✦ Synopsis

"[A] resolute, detailed, and unflinching review of [Annan's] most difficult hours...No one ever came closer to being the voice of "we the peoples" and no one paid a higher price for it. The world still needs such a voice, but the next person who tries to fill that role will want to reflect long and hard on the lessons of this candid, courageous, and unsparing memoir." --Michael Ignatieff, The New York Review of Books
Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2001, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke to a world still reeling from the terrorist attacks of September 11. "Ladies and Gentlemen," proclaimed Annan, "we have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, after the horror of 11 September, we see better, and we see further--we will realize that humanity is indivisible. New threats make no distinction between races, nations, or regions." Yet within only a few years the world was more divided than ever--polarized...