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035			_a(AEA)7D8F366B6FDE47C8B3D6CF106672B264
035			_a(OCoLC)49902821
050			_aE 840.2 _b.H443 2002
100			_aHertsgaard, Mark, _d-1956 _9107851
245		4	_aThe eagle's shadow : _bwhy America fascinates and infuriates the world / _cMark Hertsgaard.
260			_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _cc2002.
300			_a246 p. _c22 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-230) and index.
520			_aAmericans rarely used to think about the outside world. As the mightiest nation in history, the US could do as it pleased. Now Americans have learned the hard way that what outsiders think matters. When terror struck in September 2001, author Mark Hertsgaard was completing a trip around the world, gathering perceptions about America from people in 15 countries. Whether sophisticated business leaders, starry-eyed teenagers, or Islamic fundamentalists, his subjects felt both admiring and uneasy about the United States, enchanted yet bewildered, appalled yet envious. This complex catalogue of impressions - good, bad, but never indifferent - is the departure point for an informative expose. How can the world's most open society be so proud of its founding ideals yet so inconsistent in applying them? So loved for its pop culture but so resented for its high-handedness? Exploring such paradoxes, Hertsgaard exposes uplifting and uncomfortable truths that force natives and outsiders alike to see America with fresh eyes. "Like it or not, America is the future," a European tells Hertsgaard. In a world growing more American by the day this book provides an explanation of the place everyone talks about but few understand. www.alibris.com
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