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  • War on Peace

  • The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
  • By: Ronan Farrow
  • Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
  • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (43 ratings)

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War on Peace

By: Ronan Farrow
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The New York Times number three best seller

A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. 

US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America’s place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the diplomats who make America’s deals and protect democratic interests around the world are walking out in droves. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. Increasingly, America is a nation that shoots first and asks questions later.

In an astonishing journey from the corridors of power in Washington, DC, to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth – Afghanistan, Somalia, and North Korea among them acclaimed investigative journalist Ronan Farrow illuminates one of the most consequential and poorly understood changes in American history. His first-hand experience as a former State Department official affords a personal look at some of the last standard bearers of traditional statecraft, including Richard Holbrooke, who made peace in Bosnia and died while trying to do so in Afghanistan.

Drawing on newly unearthed documents, and richly informed by rare interviews with warlords, whistle-blowers, and policymakers – including every living secretary of state from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton to Rex Tillerson – War on Peace makes a powerful case for an endangered profession. Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after decades of political cowardice, short-sightedness, and outright malice – but it may just offer a way out of a world at war.

©2018 Ronan Farrow (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic Reviews

"Astonishing reporting and gripping prose.... Based on interviews with every living Secretary of State plus dozens of whistle blowers and insiders, this book is an indispensable and fascinating revelation of what diplomats actually do and why undermining them is so dangerous. Farrow is a riveting storyteller with a great eye for colourful characters. This is one of the most important books of our time." (Walter Isaacson)

"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)

"A masterpiece." (Dan Simpson, Post-Gazette)   

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Farrow is wonderful but he needed a better (or any?) director and producer.

Farrow is an excellent writer and performer overall but his (or perhaps an inexperienced director’s) insistence on the same tonal structure for every. single. dialogue tag - all. the. way. to. the. end. of. the. sentence. regardless. of. content. was at least as annoying as reading this sentence will be. Also, there were so many drop-ins (post-recorded amendments) which were so badly matched I stopped wearing headphones to avoid sea-sickness!

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gripping

it jumps about a bit but very factual and insightful. Ronan ability to establish rapport gives the reader amazing perspective

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