Thousand Hills Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

Name: Thousand Hills Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
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ISBN: 9780470120156

ISBN-10: 0470120150

ISBN-13: 9780470120156

Edition: 2008

Authors: Stephen Kinzer, Stephen Kinzer

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Paul Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee. He and a group of comrades, determined to force their way back home after a generation of exile, designed one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine war. Then, after taking power, they amazed the world by stabilizing and reviving their devastated country. Now, as President Kagame, he's obsessed with a single outlandish dream: to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, and to do it in the space of a single generation. A Thousand Hills tells Kagame's tumultuous life story, including his early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and the…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 349
Size: 7.20" wide x 9.48" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Stephen Kinzer is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



You Can't Just Pretend Nothing Happened



Elegant Golden-Red Beauties



That's Why I Survived



A Glass of Milk



Devastation



Creatures from Another World



We Just Didn't Get It



This Is a Coup



Madam, They're Killing My People



What a Farce



Something Really Fills Up in Your Mind



Rwanda Doesn't Matter



The Tricky Part



When You're Not Serious, You Can't Be Correct



Breathless with Fear



Famous for Just One Thing



The Web Grows Big



We Aspire to Be Like Others


Notes


Bibliography


Index