
Generation's End
A Personal Memoir of American Power After 9/11
Scott L. Malcomson(Author)
Potomac Books Inc (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2010
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-59797-540-7 (ISBN)
Description
As we approach the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we have a chance to see more clearly how they were a turning point in America's relationship with the world. America became more assertive abroad; its authority and legitimacy as the only superpower became more widely opposed; and the limitations of the U.S.-dominated post-World War II international structures became more evident with each passing year. The first half of Generation's End examines the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks through the invasion of Iraq in 2003. As the foreign affairs Op-Ed editor for the New York Times during this period, Scott L. Malcomson witnessed the newspaper's struggles to deal with the threats to its city and to American security. He captures the confusion and bravery of those times with disarming honesty while also providing insight into the shaping of American (and Times) policy. The latter half takes Malcomson to Geneva, where in early 2003 he became senior adviser to the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello. When Vieira de Mello was selected as the UN's special representative for Iraq, Malcomson counseled him closely, writing strategy memos, speeches, and Op-Eds (including politically sensitive material revealed here for the first time). The killing of Vieira de Mello by al Qaeda in Baghdad, movingly evoked here by Malcomson, brings a measure of closure to a very brief but critical two years that, as George Packer notes in his foreword, "contain all the decisions that would set in motion the larger era." In an epilogue, Malcomson positions the Obama administration in the context of this formative period.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dulles
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59797-540-7 (9781597975407)
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12/2011
Potomac Books Inc
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Persons
Since leaving the United Nations in early 2004, Scott L. Malcomson has been foreign editor at the New York Times Magazine. Articles assigned and edited by him there have earned many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Magazine Award. He is the author of three previously published books, including One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race (2000). He lives in New York City.