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Buying a Better World Anna Porter

Buying a Better World By Anna Porter

Buying a Better World by Anna Porter


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George Soros is a billionaire and a philanthropist, a social activist who uses his wealth to champion social causes and change the world. With access to Soros and his Open Society Foundations, Anna Porter examines the growth of the man and the organization, the causes he has championed, and his successes and failures.

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Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy by Anna Porter

The 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?

Buying a Better World Reviews

[The Ghosts of Europe] offers a succinct, highly readable, contemporary history, interspersed with interviews with influential national figures regarding past, present and future. -- Philip Marchand * National Post *
Porter explains the lens through which Soros looks at both economics and politics-the idea that there's a two-way relationship between cause and effect. * Maclean's *
Based on interviews with Soros and his friends, colleagues, and business partners, Porter writes an extraordinary biography of the billionaire, focusing on his legacy. * Publishers Weekly online *

About Anna Porter

Anna 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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CIN1459731034G
9781459731035
1459731034
Buying a Better World: George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy by Anna Porter
Used - Good
Paperback
Dundurn Group Ltd
20150317
224
N/A
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