The author depicts his life and his experiences as the Under Secretary-General of the United Nations

A “candid, courageous, and unsparing memoir” (The New York Review of Books) of post–Cold War politics and global statecraft Written with eloquence and unp

Argues that the key to the formation of an empire lies in a society's capacity for collective action, resulting from people banding together to confront a commo

"The memoir of a prominent member of the Manhattan Project, and an intimate friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer."--Jacket.

A reader's companion for Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace, inspired by the online book club led by Yiyun Li. For the writer Yiyun Li, whenever life has felt