Nina Munk (Get this book)Vanity Fair contributing editor Munk spent six years chronicling the Millennium Villages Project, the pet project that lauded economist Sachs launched in 2006. The project's goal was an audacious attempt to prove Sachs's well-intentioned, but ultimately naive theories about ending extreme poverty in Africa by focusing on a handful of carefully selected villages with the expectation that their halo effect would spread throughout the country. Students of economic policy and altruistic do-gooders alike will find Munk's work to be a measured, immersive study of a remarkable but all-too-human man who let his vision get the best of him.--Kirkus
