Bill Gates: Failing Up — When Development Goes Wrong… and Right

Bono calls the economist Jeffrey Sachs “the squeaky wheel that roars.” To me, Sachs is the Bono of economics—a guy with impressive intelligence, passion and powers of persuasion who is devoting his gifts to speaking up for the poorest people on the planet.
So I was not surprised that a journalist would find Sachs to be a compelling central character for a book—and a good way to draw readers into the potentially dry subject of international development.