Ronan Farrow is an investigative journalist who writes for The New Yorker and makes documentaries for HBO. He has been an anchor and reporter at MSNBC and NBC News, and his writing has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, and the National Magazine Award, among other commendations, and has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is also an attorney and former State Department official. He lives in New York City.
"Farrow draws on both government experience and fresh reporting to
offer a lament for the plight of America’s diplomats—and an
argument for why it matters. ‘Classic, old-school diplomacy,’ he
observes, is ‘frustrating’ and involves ‘a lot of jet lag.’ Yet his
wry voice and storytelling take work that is often grueling and
dull and make it seem…vividly human."
*Daniel Kurtz-Phelan - The New York Times*
"Offers lively writing, astute commentary, and plenty of great
stories, laced through with passion and outrage....Farrow is a
natural storyteller, and his empathy and imagination breathe life
even into the endless, awkward Thanksgiving dinner that constitutes
diplomacy."
*Rosa Brooks - Washington Post*
"Dogged research and persuasive argument....Farrow brings to his
book astonishing access....[he is] an indefatigable and imaginative
reporter."
*David Shribman - The Globe and Mail*
"A masterpiece….The writing sparkles."
*Dan Simpson - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette*
"A compelling mixture of political analysis and personal
anecdote."
*Andrew Anthony - The Guardian*
"Has the United States turned its back on diplomacy, and on its
diplomats? And if so, at what cost? Farrow makes a good case that
we have, and that the cost will be high....He captures
extraordinarily well what the work of diplomacy means."
*Barbara K. Bodine - San Francisco Chronicle*
"With astonishing reporting and gripping prose, Ronan Farrow tells
the powerful story of the gutting of American diplomacy…War on
Peace is an indispensable and fascinating revelation of what
diplomats actually do for our country and why undermining them is
so dangerous. Farrow is a riveting storyteller with a great eye for
colorful characters. This is one of the most important books of our
time."
*Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and professor of history,
Tulane*
"Ronan Farrow has scooped us all (again). And it is no wonder. A
gifted writer with a powerful intellect and a passion for truth,
Farrow has become one of this generation’s finest journalists and
War on Peace a book that will be required reading for generations
to come. It is perhaps the most riveting and relatable book on
foreign policy and diplomacy I have ever read. I have covered these
same corridors of diplomatic power, these same bloody war zones,
yet on every page of War on Peace I was astonished by what I
learned."
*Martha Raddatz, ABC News chief global affairs correspondent and
author of The Long Road Home*
"US diplomacy has failed to keep up with the times. Part insider
account and part sober analysis, War on Peace traces the fall of
American diplomacy and pulls no punches. Only someone as incisive
and unflinching as Farrow could have written this book—and we
should all be thankful that he did. A must-read."
*Ian Bremmer, editor-at-large, Time magazine, and president,
Eurasia group*
"It's hard to imagine there is a single important diplomat Ronan
Farrow didn't speak to in the course of reporting this remarkable
account of American diplomacy in decline. This is no surprise: who
better than a diplomat-turned-investigative-reporter to bring this
deeply reported, acutely observed, and morally righteous chronicle
of a nation that has all but abandoned diplomacy in favor of
high-tech, high-ticket military action at just the perilous moment
when steely and patient diplomacy is needed more than ever. This
scoop-laden book is essential reading for those of us who yearn for
peace and American moral leadership on a fractious planet."
*Lydia Polgreen, former editorial director, New York Times Global,
and editor-in-chief, HuffPost*
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