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New Book Peacemaker - Available from September 2025
“Beautiful, gripping, and indispensable, this biography of the longest-serving United Nations secretary-general is also a reminder of almost forgotten aspirations for a postcolonial world beyond endless war and enduring hierarchy. The dreams revisited in this eye-opening and uplifting book have an enormous claim on the attention of Americans at a crossroads in their relation to global affairs.”
― Samuel Moyn, author of The Last Utopia
“A wonderful subject, beautifully written, evoking a world startlingly like and unlike our own - a reminder of paths tragically not taken, of idealism and cynicism - of how much the United Nations offered and could still offer. Essential reading for anyone interested in the origins and possibilities of our current global crisis.”
― Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge
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“Amazing. This book will come as a revelation even to scholars of the UN in the Cold War period.”
― Frances Fitzgerald, author of Fire in the Lake
“A gift: a primer on the Cold War era, revives the pivotal role of U Thant―the first non-European to lead the UN―and foreshadowing the conflicts we face today.”
― Elizabeth Becker, author of You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
“U Thant devoted his life to the pursuit of peace in a fearsomely fractured world. With empathy, care, and scholarly rigor, Thant Myint-U reminds us that the truly courageous never abandoned their struggles for justice, even in the darkest of times.”
― Kevin Boyle, author of The Shattering: America in the 1960s
NEW ARTICLE
"CAN THE UNITED NATIONS BE SAVED: The Case for Getting Back to Basics", FOREIGN AFFAIRS, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024
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