A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It Hardback - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Stephen Kinzer
In the tradition of Ishmael Beah's bestselling "A Long Way Gone" and Greg Mortenson's "Three Cups of Tea," this book recounts the thrilling and uplifting tale of Rwandan President Kagame, who defied the odds to lift himself and his country out of misery toward a more promising future.
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In A "Thousand Hills," bestselling author Stephen Kinzer tells the dramatic story of Paul Kagame, whose rebel army stopped the genocide and whose government has turned Rwanda into a new star of Africa. Kagame grew up as a wretched refugee, shaped one of the most audacious covert operations in the history of clandestine warfare, and then emerged as a visionary leader with radical ideas about how poor countries can climb out of their misery. Whether his experiment can succeed is a question that has begun to fascinate people across Africa and beyond.
A "Thousand Hills" tells Kagame's astonishing story more fully than it has ever been told before. Drawingon extensive interviews with Kagame himself and with people who knew him at every stage of his life, Kinzer recounts one of the great untold stories of modern revolution. He traces Kagame through his years as a bitterly angry student, recounts his early fascination with men of action ranging from Che Guevara to James Bond, and explains how he built a secret revolutionary army in a way no one ever had before. With the dramatic flair that has led the "Washington Post" to call him "among the best in foreign policy storytelling," Kinzer then traces the three-and-a-half-year war Kagame waged in the Rwandan bush--a war that stopped a genocide, changed the destiny of a nation, and set in motion one of the most exciting social and political experiments now under way anywhere in the world.
Filled with harrowing tales of guerilla warfare, heart-wrenching accounts of the genocide carried out by the government of Rwanda, and inspiring stories of how a devastated nation can reinvent itself, A "Thousand Hills" is powerful, moving, and deeply compelling.
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- Title A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
- Author Stephen Kinzer
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 349
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Trade Paper Press, N . Y.
- Publication date 2008-06-01
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780470120156 / 0470120150
- Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 16.26 x 3.30 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Central Africa
- Interdisciplinary Studies: African
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Library of Congress subjects Rwanda - History - Civil War, 1994 -, Genocide - Rwanda
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007041613
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Library Journal, 05/15/2008, Page 115
- Publishers Weekly, 04/21/2008, Page 48
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2008, Page 51
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