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The Eagle´s Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
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Description for The Eagle´s Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
Paperback. How can America be so powerful and yet so innocent? How can a nation so clever at business and selling its products overseas be so oblivious to how outsiders regard it? This book explains to Americans what the world really thinks of their nation and why, and to non-Americans why America is the way it is. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; HBJK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and yellowing
How can America be so powerful and yet so innocent? So ignorant of foreign lands, peoples and languages yet so certain it knows what's best for everyone? How can its individual citizens be so open, friendly and generous but its foreign policy so arrogant and domineering? And why is it shocked when the objects of its policies grumble, protest or even strike back in anger? How can a nation so clever at business and selling its products overseas be so oblivious to how outsiders regard it? The answers to these and many other questions will explain why America leaves so ... Read more
How can America be so powerful and yet so innocent? So ignorant of foreign lands, peoples and languages yet so certain it knows what's best for everyone? How can its individual citizens be so open, friendly and generous but its foreign policy so arrogant and domineering? And why is it shocked when the objects of its policies grumble, protest or even strike back in anger? How can a nation so clever at business and selling its products overseas be so oblivious to how outsiders regard it? The answers to these and many other questions will explain why America leaves so ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747563952
SKU
KOC0017836
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Paperback
Mark Hertsgaard is an American journalist, author and broadcaster. He is the author of Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future, A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles and On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times, ... Read more
Reviews for The Eagle´s Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
'A brave attempt to establish and describe an intimate relationship between what you could call the good and bad sides of America' Guardian 'Most Americans living overseas will recognise what Hertsgaard has to say' Sunday Times