One book mentioned in his entry: It’s Our Turn to Eat: the Story of a Kenyan WhistleblowerPaul Collier is a professor of economics at Oxford University. He is the author of The Bottom Billio
by Michela Wrong,
Published by Fourth Estate, February 3rd, 2009.
One of the advantages of being an author is that other authors sometimes send you advance copies of their books. Over Christmas Michela Wrong sent me her new book, It’s Our Turn to Eat: the Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower which is not out until February 3rd. This turned out to be one of those rare books that once you have started leaves you no choice but to drop everything else until you have finished it. For me this proved mighty inconvenient – I face deadlines – but that is what I did.
The book is written like a thriller, except that this is reality. A tape recorder concealed on the hero’s body really did go wrong and start to play back out loud at a crucial moment. If....[read on]
n, which won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations.Visit Paul Collier's website.
Learn more about Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places.
Read J. Tyler Dickovick's interview with Collier about his last book, The Bottom Billion.
The Page 99 Test: The Bottom Billion.
Writers Read: Paul Collier.
--Marshal Zeringue
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