Chasing the Flame : One Man's Fight to Save the World

by Power, Samantha

• ISBN13: 9780143114857
• ISBN10: 0143114859
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-02
• Publisher: Penguin Books

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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