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- catalog abstract ""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 foreigners think matters. When terror struck on September 11, 2001, 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 of 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 Culture of Complaint. 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 foreigners 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 (and people) everyone discusses but few understand."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12624264.
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign public opinion.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""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 foreigners think matters. When terror struck on September 11, 2001, 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 of 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 Culture of Complaint. 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 foreigners 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 (and people) everyone discusses but few understand."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The parochial superpower -- Glamorous and gluttonous -- Taking freedom for granted -- The oblivious empire -- Our palace court press -- America's gods, holy and unholy -- The land of opportunity turns selfish -- The tragedy of American democracy -- Look out, world, here we come -- America the beautiful.".
- catalog extent "246 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0374103836 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign public opinion.".
- catalog subject "973 21".
- catalog subject "E840.2 .H47 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "The parochial superpower -- Glamorous and gluttonous -- Taking freedom for granted -- The oblivious empire -- Our palace court press -- America's gods, holy and unholy -- The land of opportunity turns selfish -- The tragedy of American democracy -- Look out, world, here we come -- America the beautiful.".
- catalog title "The eagle's shadow : why America fascinates and infuriates the world / Mark Hertsgaard.".
- catalog type "text".