David Rieff is the author of eight previous books, including Swimming in a Sea of Death , At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis ; and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West . He lives in New York City.
Rural America
Why Philanthrocapitalism, Technology and Good Intentions Have Failed to End Hunger
David Rieff
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