Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

This is a wonderful story of finding a need and having a unique ability to address it. It is a timely tale of compassion, a story of real women's liberation and of the importance of education. Overall this is a great book and hopeful. There are two troubling things. One is the madrasa movement that is massive and heavily financed and all male, making Mortenson's efforts tiny in comparison. Second, there is an ambivalence about what the U.S. as a nation is doing in the area. This aspect of the book is inconsistent, awkward, and morally naive.