Books by Derek Chollet

A spirited insider's account of the most controversial foreign policy decisions of Obama's administration, and definitive treatise on why Obama's foreign policy legacy will be regarded as one of the most successful of the last half century.

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the fall of the Twin Towers, this book discusses how successive US administrations struggled to understand the changing world. It provides an account of one of the most overlooked and misunderstood eras in US history: the 12 years after the Cold War was definitively won.

"An important, timely and imaginative book... [that] takes readers through a smart and fact-paced history of half a century with Holbrooke."-Washington Post