The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost

Psychologically astute and passionately written Molly Worthen’s remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student and teacher biographer and subject. As a Yale freshman Worthen found herself deeply fascinated by worldly-wise professor Charles Hill a former diplomat who had shaped American foreign policy in his forty-year career as an adviser to Henry Kissinger George Shultz and Boutros Boutros-Ghali among others. Hill was never afraid to tell students how to think or what to do and the Grand Strategy seminar he co-taught had developed a cult following.The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost is at once the biography of a political insider and the story of how its author evolved as she wrote it. In a moving highly original work Worthen conveys the joy and the heartache of uncovering the human being behind one’s idol.