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Foreign affairs: 23 new books I wish Obama and Romney would read

In preparation for the upcoming presidential debate on foreign policy, check out these 23 books that offer the kind of nuance and context mostly overlooked during a campaign.  

3. 'The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster,' by Jonathan M. Katz

Also scheduled for release in January 2013, this book 鈥 part memoir and part investigative journalism 鈥 is a powerful account of the deadly 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince and the staggering failure of the $16.3 billion dollar international aid effort that followed it. This is one of the most incisive and important critiques of the international aid regime to date.

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