A Chronicle of UN History; a record of the immense social and political challenges faced by the world community in the post-World War II years; a celebration of extraordinary efforts to improve the lives and the livelihood of mankind worldwide...
A Global Affair: An Inside Look at the United Nations is the definitive book on UN history and on the exceptional people who have contributed to it. With an introduction by Brian Urquhart, former UN Under Secretary- General for Special Political Affairs, A Global Affair has chapters by a team of respected international journalists who reveal UN successes and failures at dealing with the critical issues that have confronted the world community during the UN's first 50 years, including development, disarmament, the environment and peacekeeping. It also has the largest collection of high quality color and black and white photography ever assembled in a book on the United Nations.
The Los Angeles Times described A Global Affair as "Comprehensive, fact filled and beautifully packaged...[with] 400 photographs and 15 profoundly moving essays╔ The book's excellence is in the details, and the photographs are magnificent." UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called A Global Affair "an honest history" and sent it as a gift to 165 heads of state worldwide. Diplomatic World Bulletin labeled the book "a must for serious students of the UN. A Global Affair is better than a UN tour in revealing United Nations history.
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Hard cover, 304 pages, 400 color and black and white photographs, 80,000 words, $35.
