The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria »

Bill Shore is the founder and executive director of Share Our Strength®, the nation’s leading organization working to end childhood hunger in America, which he founded in 1984. He currently serves on the board of directors of The Timberland Company, and of Venture Philanthropy Partners. Shore has been an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and is currently the program advisor for the Reynolds Foundation Fellowship program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadership. He is the author of three books.

Through the story of scientists pursuing an impossible dream, a renowned social entrepreneur examines what it really takes to change the world

Library Journal

Founder of Share Our Strength, a nonprofit devoted to eliminating hunger in children, Shore was deeply moved by the death of a child he encountered in Ethiopia. He resolved to investigate the scientific work conducted to fight malaria and other tropical diseases and to explore the qualities of individuals and organizations that are key to success against varied health and social problems often rejected as unprofitable, quixotic, and, ultimately, hopeless. Shore spotlights Steve Hoffman as the exemplar of the game-changing scientist pursuing development of a malaria vaccine. Malaria is caused by a parasite transmitted to humans by the Anopheles mosquito, but vaccines against parasites have long been considered impossible. Shore leads his readers to hope that the synergy of creative researchers like Hoffman and the targeted funding of innovative nonprofits will be victorious in the fight against malaria and result in success against a host of social and health problems plaguing the poor and voiceless. VERDICT This well-written description of the ravages of tropical diseases and current efforts to combat them and the trials and triumphs of one particular scientist will enthrall interested readers.—Kathy Arsenault, St. Petersburg, FL

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 When Good is not Good Enough 9

Chapter 2 Whatever it Takes 27

Chapter 3 Strange Bedfellows 35

Chapter 4 The Bio-Hazard Level 3 Strip Mall 53

Chapter 5 Tropical Lineage 71

Chapter 6 Battlefield General 87

Chapter 7 The E Word, Once Again and at Last 123

Chapter 8 Sanaria has its Day in the Sun 165

Chapter 9 Ecosystem of Market Failures 193

Chapter 10 Moment of Truth 215

Chapter 11 Philanthropy's Shifting Tides 239

Chapter 12 Moral Imagination 263

Acknowledgments 283

Notes 287

Index 299