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Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781459731035)
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xThe incredible, inside story of the man and the organization changing the way we change the world.
George Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has spent billions in order to promote democracy around the world. Morton Abramowitz of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace once said that Soros was "the only private citizen with his own foreign policy."
Anna Porter has interviewed Soros, his senior staff, journalists, politicians, and many others in an attempt to understand the man. Each person has a unique story to tell. Focusing on the last decade, she explores how Soros's Open Society Foundations have spread his ideas of human rights, democracy, Western liberalism, and participatory capitalism around the globe. These are the ideas Soros has said he considers worth dying for. How have they translated into reality? What will his legacy be?
Author: Anna Porter
ISBN-10: 1459731034
ISBN-13: 9781459731035
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2015
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/06/2015
Quill & Quire 07/01/2015 pg. 40
George Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has spent billions in order to promote democracy around the world. Morton Abramowitz of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace once said that Soros was "the only private citizen with his own foreign policy."
Anna Porter has interviewed Soros, his senior staff, journalists, politicians, and many others in an attempt to understand the man. Each person has a unique story to tell. Focusing on the last decade, she explores how Soros's Open Society Foundations have spread his ideas of human rights, democracy, Western liberalism, and participatory capitalism around the globe. These are the ideas Soros has said he considers worth dying for. How have they translated into reality? What will his legacy be?
Author: Anna Porter
ISBN-10: 1459731034
ISBN-13: 9781459731035
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2015
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/06/2015
Quill & Quire 07/01/2015 pg. 40
By Anna Porter
xAnna Porter is the author of many books, including The Ghosts of Europe, Kasztner's Train, and The Storyteller. She has won many awards for her writing, including the Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Award, the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Canadian Authors Association/Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and also holds the Order of Ontario. She lives in Toronto.
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