Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa, Paperback

Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review, this is a compelling and entertaining account of the author's two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small bankrupt African nation on the path of structural development.

About the Author:

Robert Klitgaard is the author of Tropical Gangsters and Choosing Elites. A former associate professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, he is currently President and University Professor of Claremont Graduate University.