Recommended Reading

A long time ago I started reading Samantha Power's Chasing the Flame, about Sergio Vieria de Mello, a career UN diplomat who was killed in Iraq in 2003. I recently saw the book under a pile of papers on my desk and realized I had only read half of it. I'm finishing it now, and its a spectacular look into the inner workings of the UN, and the difficulties of peacekeeping missions in volatile areas of the globe. The author is on Obama's National Security Council, and has previously won the Pulitzer Prize for a seperate book entitled A Problem From Hell.