Mother Jones on Richard Holbrooke

Me? On even his bad days, I thought he was a lot of fun to watch. Career diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who died suddenly on Monday, was an older school player and a powerful class act. As David Corn suggests in “Richard Holbrooke’s Unfinished Business“, Holbrooke’s passing is going to get more than the usual few days of ink from both critics and admirers who cover Afghanistan.