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050	0	0	_aE840.2 _b.H47 2002
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100	1		_aHertsgaard, Mark, _d1956-
245	1	4	_aThe eagle's shadow : _bwhy America fascinates and infuriates the world / _cMark Hertsgaard.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bFarrar, Strauss and Giroux, _c2002.
300			_a246 p. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aPublisher description: 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.
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign public opinion.
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