02467cam a2200289 a 45000010006000000050017000060080041000230100017000640350023000810400051001040150015001550200015001700350037001850430012002220500028002340820008002621000029002702450094002992600051003933000021004445040051004655201366005166510043018828560096019258560068020218560088020898459820230404125823.0020523s2002    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a  2002072231  a(OCoLC)ocm49902821  aDLCcDLCdUKMdBAKERdBTCTAdYDXCPdOCLCGdUBC  aGBA2-W2884  a0312422504  a(OCoLC)49902821z(OCoLC)50654718  an-us---14a002 E 840.2bH575e 200200a9731 aHertsgaard, Mark,d1956-14aThe eagle's shadow :bwhy America fascinates and infuriates the world /cMark Hertsgaard.  aNew York :bFarrar, Strauss and Giroux,c2002.  a246 p. ;c22 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.1 a"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."--BOOK JACKET. 0aUnited StatesxForeign public opinion.423Contributor biographical informationuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2002072231.html423Book review (H-Net)uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c8f8-aa423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002072231.html