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A comprehensive and controversial study of the 60-billion-dollar-a-year world foreign-aid business, Lords of Poverty was a bestseller in hardcover and earned the 1990 H.L. Mencken Award honorable mention for an outstanding book of journalism. Hancock investigates why huge aid projects often... read more

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THE WHITE WOMAN, tired but pretty, the one in the blue paisley frock, what exactly is she doing?

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  1. Graham Hancock (Author)
 

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