Getting To Know The General: The Story Of An Involvement
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Condition: Good. Jacket: worn/faded; no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact.
A remarkable political memoir and personal testimony, Getting to Know the General chronicles Graham Greene's unlikely friendship with General Omar Torrijos, the charismatic and populist military leader of Panama. Written with the candid warmth and sharp political intelligence that defined Greene's non-fiction work, the book recounts his repeated visits to Panama between 1976 and 1981, painting an intimate portrait of a leader who defied Cold War orthodoxy and championed the Panamanian people's right to sovereignty over the Canal. Greene details the conversations, travels, and shared confidences that bound two vastly different men together across the divides of culture, power, and ideology. The narrative is as much a reflection on Greene's own political conscience as it is a tribute to Torrijos, whose death in a suspicious plane crash in 1981 lends the book a haunting, elegiac quality. A rare intersection of literary memoir and geopolitical insight, it stands as one of the most personal works of Greene's extraordinary career.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, The Bodley Head, London
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: worn/faded; no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact.
A remarkable political memoir and personal testimony, Getting to Know the General chronicles Graham Greene's unlikely friendship with General Omar Torrijos, the charismatic and populist military leader of Panama. Written with the candid warmth and sharp political intelligence that defined Greene's non-fiction work, the book recounts his repeated visits to Panama between 1976 and 1981, painting an intimate portrait of a leader who defied Cold War orthodoxy and championed the Panamanian people's right to sovereignty over the Canal. Greene details the conversations, travels, and shared confidences that bound two vastly different men together across the divides of culture, power, and ideology. The narrative is as much a reflection on Greene's own political conscience as it is a tribute to Torrijos, whose death in a suspicious plane crash in 1981 lends the book a haunting, elegiac quality. A rare intersection of literary memoir and geopolitical insight, it stands as one of the most personal works of Greene's extraordinary career.