The Idealist

<b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <br><i>Bloomberg</i> • <i>Forbes</i> • <i>The Spectator<br></i><br>Recipient of <i>Foreign Policy's</i> 2013 Albie Award<br><br><br></b>In 2006, Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller <i>The End of Poverty—</i> launched the Millennium Villages Project, a daring, $120-million experiment designed to test his theories about ending poverty. For six years, Nina Munk shadowed Sachs on his trips to Africa, listened in on conversations with heads-of-state and humanitarian organizations, and immersed herself in the lives of people in two remote African villages.  Munk came to understand the real-life issues that challenge Sachs’s formula for ending global poverty. <i>The Idealist</i> is the profound and moving story of what happens when the abstract theories of a brilliant, driven man meet the realities of human life. <b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <br><i>Bloomberg</i> • <i>Forbes</i> • <i>The Spectator<br></i><br>Recipient of <i>Foreign Policy's</i> 2013 Albie Award<br><br><br></b>In 2006, Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential bestseller <i>The End of Poverty—</i> launched the Millennium Villages Project, a daring, $120-million experiment designed to test his theories about ending poverty. For six years, Nina Munk shadowed Sachs on his trips to Africa, listened in on conversations with heads-of-state and humanitarian organizations, and immersed herself in the lives of people in two remote African villages.  Munk came to understand the real-life issues that challenge Sachs’s formula for ending global poverty. <i>The Idealist</i> is the profound and moving story of what happens when the abstract theories of a brilliant, driven man meet the realities of human life.