Interventions

A straightforward, candid account. I appreciated Kofi's candor re: the backstage politicking at the UN, especially following 9/11. I was also jostled out of my US-centric viewpoint by his blunt assessments of the US since 2001.

Overall, he covers: the UN failures from the 1990s (Rwanda, Bosnia); Africa and Africa's political history (yay); the MDGs; 9/11 and the War on Terror. Am I missing any sections? It's much less a memoir in the proper sense - we get basically two lines between him flying off to Macalester College and then getting his first job at the UN - and it's much more a short political history, as seen from his (very interesting) vantage point.

A funny writerly tic: everyone - and I do mean EVERYONE - that appears in his entourage is described as “my most trusted...” or “the able...”, etc.