Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War
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Book details
- Author
- Stanley Meisler
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 384
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Biography & Autobiography › Political
- Topics
- United Nations · political biography · diplomacy · Nobel Peace Prize · Ghana · international relations · peacekeeping
- ISBN-13
- 9780470281697 (Paperback)9780471787440 (Hardcover)
About the author
STANLEY MEISLER was a foreign and diplomatic correspondent for the Los Angeles Times for thirty years. His books include Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse, When The World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years, and Kofi Annan: A Man of Peace in a World of War.
Meisler twice won the Korn-Ferry Award for Excellence in United Nations Reporting. He held a B.A. in English Literature from the City College of New York and pursued graduate studies in English Literature and African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Meisler began his journalism career in 1953, worked with the Associated Press from 1954 to 1964, and served as deputy director of the Office of Evaluation and Research of the U.S. Peace Corps before joining the Times in 1967.
Stanley Meisler died on June 26, 2016, of cardiac arrest.