A Bed for the Night Humanitarianism in Crisis

"Thoughtful and eminently readable" Washington Post "An achievement of profound intelligence and courage of conviction" -- Nadine Gordimer "A Bed for the Night provides an excellent antidote to the hollow cliches and generalizations that often blur and distort the horribly real problems of helping the world's most afflicted people" -- Brian Urquhart, Former Undersecretary General Of The United Nations "An absorbing and thoughtful book. David Rieff has taken a great subject - exile, in this case the exile of Cubans in Miami - and been fully responsive and responsible to it. Paradise lost is a great theme.and David Rieff has treated it with Miltonic assurance. It is a book to be savoured and reread" -- Larry McMurtry