BOOK REVIEW: Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

By George Packer. Alfred E. Knopf, New York. Hardback, 590 pp. US$30

It is telling that George Packer, the 60-year-old author and writer for New Yorker and Atlantic, dedicated this book to Leslie and Judy Gelb and Frank Wisner, who arguably topped the long list of people that Richard Holbrooke bedeviled and frustrated during the five decades he spent in public life, dying in 2010 at the age of 71 of a massive heart attac…