Book description
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of
exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to
make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single
generation. In this adventurous tale, learn about Kagame's early
fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an
intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and the United States, the way
he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized
ambitions for Rwanda. Stephen Kinzer
is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has worked in more than
fifty countries on five continents. He has been New York Times bureau
chief in Istanbul, Berlin, and Managua, Nicaragua. He is the coauthor of
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
, and author of Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua
; Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
; All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
; and Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
. His Web site is www. stephenkinzer. com.
