David Holbrooke has political pedigree — his father was the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who worked with presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Obama as a foreign policy expert in places like Bosnia, Vietnam, the Balkans and Afghanistan.

But the younger Holbrooke, who just turned 60, prefers to be known for his other claim to fame: “cultural entrepreneur, which is a funny thing to put on a business card,” he said.

His chosen identity certainly has depth, as he has immersed himself in a dozen different cultures to create an eclectic list of documentaries over the years.

Before that, in the late ‘90s, he was producer of longform story segments for the “Today” show, CBS News and CNN. Even though he loved what he did, he ached watching his colleagues branch into their own

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