The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill

Psychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen’s remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student and teacher, biographer and subject. As a Yale freshman, Worthen found herself deeply fascinated by worldly-wise professor Charles Hill, a former diplomat who had shaped American foreign policy in his forty-year career as an adviser to Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali, among others. Hill was never afraid to tell students how to think or what to do, and the Grand Strategy seminar he co-taught had developed a cult following.

The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost is at once the biography of a political insider and the story of how its author evolved as she wrote it. In a moving, highly original work, Worthen conveys the joy and the heartache of uncovering the human being behind one’s idol.

Author: Molly Worthen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 08/16/2007
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.64h x 5.86w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780618872671
Language: English