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A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nation
Penguin
May 2006
On Sale: April 25, 2006
496 pages
ISBN: 0143036793
EAN: 9780143036791
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Political
Never has the World Bank’s relief work been more important
than in the last nine years, when crises as huge as AIDS and
the emergence of terrorist sanctuaries have threatened the
prosperity of billions. This journalistic masterpiece by
Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby charts those
controversial years at the Bank under the leadership of
James Wolfensohn—the unstoppable power broker whose daring
efforts to enlarge the planet’s wealth in an age of
globalization and terror were matched only by the force of
his polarizing personality. Based on unprecedented access to
its subject, this captivating tour through the messy reality
of global development is that rare triumph—an emblematic
story through which a gifted author has channeled the spirit
of the age.
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