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Title: A genuinely impressive account
Review: I worked with Stu Eizenstat when I was Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights in the Clinton Administration. Although I did not know him before, except by reputation, I soon came to know him as an inspired diplomat and public servant. The work he did in bringing a resolution to the Holocaust Assets dispute was a remarkable display of ability, imagination, persistence, and conscience. This book not only tells Eizenstat's story in a compelling way, and from a profoundly human perspective, but also captures the rare decency and commitment of the author to what many considered an impossible cause. As a modern human rights memoir, it ranks with Aryeh Neier's Taking Liberties and Jeri Laber's The Courage of Strangers. This is a memoir of conscience that anyone who wants to make human rights real should read, and remember.
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