An Autopsy of American Altruism: The Rise and Fall of USAID

For more than sixty years, USAID was one of America's most visible instruments of influence abroad. Then it unraveled. Why?

In An Autopsy of American Altruism: The Rise and Fall of USAID, Bosco Mutarambirwa traces the extraordinary rise, transformation, and fall of the United States Agency for International Development, from John F. Kennedy's Cold War vision to an era in which the very purpose of American foreign aid came under attack.

USAID was created to promote development, strengthen frag...