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Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power. Published February 2008 (Find this book in our catalog)
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power has written an epic tale - part thriller, part tragedy - the political career and tragic death of the incomparable humanitarian Sergio Vieira de Mello. A reviewer wrote: “If there is a single individual who can be said to have been at center stage through all of the most significant humanitarian and geopolitical crises of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, it was Sergio Vieira de Mello…In nearly four decades of work for the United Nations, Sergio distinguished himself as the consummate humanitarian, able to negotiate with-and often charm-cold war military dictators, Marxist jungle radicals, reckless warlords, and nationalist and sectarian militia leaders. By taking the measure of this remarkable man's life and career, Power offers a fascinating answer to the question: Who possesses the moral authority, the political sense, and the military and economic heft to protect human life and bring peace to the unruly new world order?�

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