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The incredible, inside story of the man and the organization changing the way we change the world.
George Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has spent billions in order to promote democracy around the world. Morton Abramowitz of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace once said that Soros was “the only private citizen with his own foreign policy.”
Anna Porter has interviewed Soros, his senior staff, journalists, politicians, and many others in an attempt to understand the man. Each person has a unique story to tell. Focusing on the last decade, she explores how Soros’s Open Society Foundations have spread his ideas of human rights, democracy, Western liberalism, and participatory capitalism around the globe. These are the ideas Soros has said he considers worth dying for. How have they translated into reality? What will his legacy be?
George Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has spent billions in order to promote democracy around the world. Morton Abramowitz of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace once said that Soros was “the only private citizen with his own foreign policy.”
Anna Porter has interviewed Soros, his senior staff, journalists, politicians, and many others in an attempt to understand the man. Each person has a unique story to tell. Focusing on the last decade, she explores how Soros’s Open Society Foundations have spread his ideas of human rights, democracy, Western liberalism, and participatory capitalism around the globe. These are the ideas Soros has said he considers worth dying for. How have they translated into reality? What will his legacy be?
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Anna Porter is the author of many books, including The Ghosts of Europe, Kasztner's Train, and The Storyteller. She has won many awards for her writing, including the Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, the Nereus Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Award, the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Canadian Authors Association/Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and also holds the Order of Ontario. She lives in Toronto.
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"Anna Porter will always be a force whenever language takes centre stage. In her latest book, Buying a Better World, she spins a mesmerizing narrative of one of the most intriguing human beings of his time, billionaire philanthropist George Soros." (Michael Harris, award-winning author of Party of One)
"Anna Porter's Kasztner's Train takes us to the magnificently researched and reconstructed world of Hungary during the twin fascist terrors of the Arrow Cross and the SS - to a world in which everything is in flux except the determination of Kasztner. It will become a classic of the times it deals with." (Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List)
"[Buying a Better World is] a compelling portrait of a larger-than-life man who, even as he mirrors his times, stands apart and tries to reshape the world." (Janice Gross Stein)
"Anna Porter's Kasztner's Train takes us to the magnificently researched and reconstructed world of Hungary during the twin fascist terrors of the Arrow Cross and the SS - to a world in which everything is in flux except the determination of Kasztner. It will become a classic of the times it deals with." (Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List)
"[Buying a Better World is] a compelling portrait of a larger-than-life man who, even as he mirrors his times, stands apart and tries to reshape the world." (Janice Gross Stein)
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