Hammarskjöld
Lipsey, Roger, 1942-
Hammarskjöld a life / [electronic resource] : Roger Lipsey. - Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2013 - 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xix, 738 p., [16] p. of plates) :) ill., digital file.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [615]-709) and index.
1. Mr. Hammarskjöd -- 2. Steep Swedish hills -- 3. You asked for burdens -- 4. The fire of clear eyes : 1950-1952 -- 5. Monastic enough? -- 6. Possibility never touched upon -- 7. This little republic -- 8. A swarm of ideas -- 9. It takes life to love life -- 10. Un chinois aux yeux bleus -- 11. Causal chains -- 12. Unrighteous shooting wars -- 13. Into all corners of the earth -- 14. Face the cold winds -- 15. Like fighting an avalanche -- 16. Have mercy upon our efforts -- 17. Far away a heart stops -- Afterword: The spirit in public life.
After his mysterious death, Dag Hammarskjöld was described by John F. Kennedy as the "greatest statesman of our century." Second secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-61), he is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. Through extensive research in little explored archives and personal correspondence, Roger Lipsey has produced the definitive biography of Dag Hammarskjöld. Hammarskjöld: A Life provides vivid new insights into the life and mind of a truly great individual. Hammarskjöld the statesman and Hammarskjöld the author of the classic spiritual journal Markings meet in this new biography, and the reader will meet them both in these pages. A towering mid-twentieth-century figure, Hammarskjöld speaks directly to our time.
9780472029341 0472029347
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961.
United Nations--Biography.
Statesmen--Sweden--Biography.
World politics--1955-1965.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
D839.7.H3 / A3 2013
341.23092
Hammarskjöld a life / [electronic resource] : Roger Lipsey. - Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2013 - 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xix, 738 p., [16] p. of plates) :) ill., digital file.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [615]-709) and index.
1. Mr. Hammarskjöd -- 2. Steep Swedish hills -- 3. You asked for burdens -- 4. The fire of clear eyes : 1950-1952 -- 5. Monastic enough? -- 6. Possibility never touched upon -- 7. This little republic -- 8. A swarm of ideas -- 9. It takes life to love life -- 10. Un chinois aux yeux bleus -- 11. Causal chains -- 12. Unrighteous shooting wars -- 13. Into all corners of the earth -- 14. Face the cold winds -- 15. Like fighting an avalanche -- 16. Have mercy upon our efforts -- 17. Far away a heart stops -- Afterword: The spirit in public life.
After his mysterious death, Dag Hammarskjöld was described by John F. Kennedy as the "greatest statesman of our century." Second secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-61), he is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. Through extensive research in little explored archives and personal correspondence, Roger Lipsey has produced the definitive biography of Dag Hammarskjöld. Hammarskjöld: A Life provides vivid new insights into the life and mind of a truly great individual. Hammarskjöld the statesman and Hammarskjöld the author of the classic spiritual journal Markings meet in this new biography, and the reader will meet them both in these pages. A towering mid-twentieth-century figure, Hammarskjöld speaks directly to our time.
9780472029341 0472029347
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961.
United Nations--Biography.
Statesmen--Sweden--Biography.
World politics--1955-1965.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
D839.7.H3 / A3 2013
341.23092