Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy

By Michael Soussan

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences

Backstabbing for Beginners is a 2008 memoir by Michael Soussan, who worked on the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme in Iraq. He gives an insider's account of the program and the corruption scandal that engulfed it.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “Our "Book of the Week" is called "Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy" by Michael Soussan. The book's author worked at the United Nations, and this is the U.N.'s version of a Hollywood tell-all. It's an insider's account of the oil-for-food scandal, breezily written and great fun to read.”