I really enjoyed this book! James Traub goes inside the UN culture and it's SG Kofi Annan. The UN is in no doubt needs a makeover, or it will still be as screwed up as it is now. ( )

Edward Mortimer has chosen to discuss James Traub’s The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject – The UN, saying that:



"...Traub is a New York Times reporter and feature writer. And he had done a profile of Kofi Annan quite early in his term of office, and was obviously interested in him as a person. And then he thought, people will be interested when Kofi completes his term in some sort of insider’s account of what it was like. And so he essentially negotiated a deal with Kofi Annan, whereby he was kind of embedded in the Secretary-General’s office..."



The full interview is available here: http://five-books.com/interviews/edward-mortimer ( )