Kookoo for Kofi.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Kofi Annan - James Traub's 'The Best Intentions' - Brief article

Kofi Annan has been the victim of harsh and often unfair criticism, but a recent biographer, James Traub, in The Best Intentions, works hard to compensate. Indeed, one might say Traub gets carried away by his admiration for the former secretary general. He writes of Annan's "superhuman display of modesty," and describes him as "wailing...