Robert McNamara's Other War chronicles the former defense secretary's thirteen-year presidency of the World Bank. Using previously unstudied World Bank documents, Patrick Allan Sharma recounts the World Bank's transformation under McNamara and highlights his complex legacy.

"Written with energy and clarity, Robert McNamara's Other War illuminates the policies and politics of the World Bank in a critical period of transformation under McNamara's defining presidency. Patrick Sharma explains how McNamara drastically changed the Bank and, in the process, was a seminal figure in the history of development, international institutions, and the international history of the 1970s."—David Ekbladh, Tufts University

"Robert McNamara's Other War reconstructs a pivotal phase in McNamara's career—a phase that is only now coming into focus for historians. Sharma has done groundbreaking historical work, making significant contributions to scholarship and displaying impressive command of economics and finance."—Daniel Sargent, University of California, Berkeley