The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates And Infuriates The World

Hertsgaard, Mark

ISBN 10: 0374103836 / ISBN 13: 9780374103835

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (edition First Edition), 2002

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Seller Inventory # 0374103836-11-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates And Infuriates The World
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374103836
• ISBN 13: 9780374103835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

What America looks like to the rest of the world

Americans rarely used to think about the outside world. As the mightiest nation in history, the United States could do as it pleased. Now Americans have learned the hard way that what outsiders think matters. When terror struck last September 11, author Mark Hertsgaard was completing a trip around the world, gathering perceptions about America from people in fifteen 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 a short, pointed essay in the tradition of Common Sense and The Fate of the Earth. 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, The Eagle's Shadow is a major statement about and to the place everyone discusses but few understand.

About the Author

Mark Hertsgaard is the author of four books. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times, and many other publications, and he is a regular contributor to National Public Radio. He lives in San Francisco.