Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions pretensions & wrongheadedness than U2's iconic frontman Bono
- a fact neither sunglasses nor leather pants can hide More than a mere philanthropist
- indeed he lags behind many of his peers when it comes to parting with his own money
- Bono is better described as an advocate one who has become an unwitting symbol of a complacent wealthy Western elite The Frontman reveals how Bono moved his investments to Amsterdam to avoid Irish taxes; his paternalistic & often bullying advocacy of neoliberal solutions in Africa; his multinational business interests; & his hobnobbing with Paul Wolfowitz & shock-doctrine economist Jeffrey Sachs Carefully dissecting the rhetoric & actions of Bono the political operator The Frontman shows him to be an ambassador for imperial exploitation a man who has turned his attention to a world of savage injustice inequality & exploitation & helped make it worse