No higher honor : a memoir of my years in Washington

Crown Publishers

2011

xviii, 766 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates

9780307587862

Before the crack in time -- Honest broker -- Policy begins -- The Middle East -- Vladimir Putin -- "The United States is under attack" -- War planning begins -- The War on Terror and the home front -- Trouble in nuclear South Asia -- The two-state solution -- The world's most dangerous weapons -- Saddam again -- Confronting the international community with a choice -- 48 hours -- Bush the African -- New challenges in Iraq -- 2004 -- "Iraqis need to govern themselves" -- Another step toward a Palestinian state -- Four more years -- Secretary of state -- Promoting America's interests and values abroad -- High mountains and dirt -- The color revolutions multiply -- Baghdad and Cairo -- A heartbreaking place called Darfur -- Katrina -- Bringing back the all-nighter -- Can anything else go wrong? -- Transformational diplomacy -- Building a new relationship with India -- Democracy in Latin America and beyond -- A change of leadership in Iraq -- Shifting course on Iran -- The Middle East plunges into war -- Revising the framework for the War on Terror -- Iraq spirals downward -- An explosion in Asia and a challenge for U.S.-China relations -- Playing the last card -- A diplomatic surge -- A new approach to Latin America -- Improving the daily lives of Palestinians -- Iraq and the home front -- The road to Annapolis -- Emergency rule -- Final-status talks begin -- A final year -- It seems like yesterday -- it seems like forever -- Whither China? -- Olmert makes an offer -- Completing the task of building a Europe whole, free, and at peace -- War breaks out in Georgia -- Cementing key relationships with Iraq and India -- He lives in his own head -- One last chance for North Korea -- The financial crisis of 2008 -- Mumbai -- One last chance for a Palestinian state

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