The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power

"If you want to understand [the UN] . . . [this book] is one of the finest guides around." -The New York Times Book Review

With a New Afterword by the Author

A man who had won the Nobel Peace Prize, who was widely counted one of the greatest UN Secretary Generals, was nearly hounded from office by scandal. Indeed, both Kofi Annan and the institution he incarnates were so deeply shaken after the Bush Administration went to war in Iraq in the face of opposition from the Security Council that cr...