Buying a Better World

The incredible, inside story of the man and the organization changing the way we change the world.

George Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has spent billions in order to promote democracy around the world. Morton Abramowitz of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace once said that Soros was “the only private citizen with his own foreign policy.”

Anna Porter has interviewed Soros, his senior staff, journalists, politicians, and many others in an attempt to understand the man. Each person has a unique story to tell. Focusing on the last decade, she explores how Soros’s Open Society Foundations have spread his ideas of human rights, democracy, Western liberalism, and participatory capitalism around the globe. These are the ideas Soros has said he considers worth dying for. How have they translated into reality? What will his legacy be?

Anna Porter is the author of many books, including The Ghosts of Europe, winner of the Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Kasztner's Train, winner of the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Award as well as the Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction, and The Storyteller, the winner of the 2001 Canadian Authors Association/Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and awarded the Order of Ontario. Anna lives in Toronto.