{"product_id":"peacemaker-by-thant-myint-u-9781838958947","title":"Peacemaker","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A wonderful subject, beautifully written, evoking a world startlingly like and unlike our own\" — Rory Stewart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant portrait not just of a great and unjustly forgotten man, but of an entire age\" — William Dalrymple\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Important reading at any time in history; essential in the world of today\" — Peter Frankopan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn December 1971, after having stepped down as the United Nations' longest-serving Secretary-General, U Thant was ranked the sixth \"most admired man\" in America. So why is he largely forgotten today?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePeacemaker\u003c\/em\u003e, Thant Myint-U traces his grandfather's rise from schoolteacher in a small Burmese backwater in 1947 to celebrity at the centre of global politics just two decades later. He reveals U Thant's integral yet forgotten roles in some of the twentieth century's most critical crises — from battling white supremacist mercenaries in the Congo and mediating a peaceful end to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 to ensuring the ceasefire held after the 1967 Six-Day War — and details the shifting world order that U Thant affected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once rigorous and hugely entertaining, \u003cem\u003ePeacemaker\u003c\/em\u003e is an intimate biography that not only attests to the power of hope, peace, and individual actions in times of uncertainty, but also chronicles a golden age of diplomacy: a time when people believed that it was only by coming together that we could tackle the biggest threats facing humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536883400940,"sku":"9781838958947","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f71fa7ddb538f669ca5a4affc5e804d6.jpg?v=1777948893","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/peacemaker-by-thant-myint-u-9781838958947","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}