02879cam a2200421 a 4500 84598 20230404125823.0 020523s2002 nyu b 001 0 eng 2002072231 (OCoLC)ocm49902821 DLC DLC UKM BAKER BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG UBC GBA2-W2884 50654718 0312422504 UKM bA2W2884 YDXCP 1869055 NZ1 6958105 AU@ 000023628820 (OCoLC)49902821 (OCoLC)50654718 n-us--- 002 E 840.2 H575e 2002 973 Hertsgaard, Mark, 1956- The eagle's shadow : why America fascinates and infuriates the world / Mark Hertsgaard. New York : Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2002. 246 p. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. "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. United States Foreign public opinion. Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2002072231.html Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c8f8-aa Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002072231.html Baker & Taylor BKTY 23.00 17.25 0374103836 0003985368 active Baker and Taylor BTCP 2002072231 YBP Library Services YANK 1869055 lcc bk C0 DRFGD 5351 5351 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-04 1 0 002 E 840.2 H575e 2002 00000011813 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk