Author: E. M. Broner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780783738277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Summer Is a Foreign Land
Author: E. M. Broner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780783738277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780783738277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Summer is a Foreign Land
Like a Foreign Land - Summer Of '53
Author: Mort Ehudin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781439262894
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781439262894
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Notes on a Foreign Country
Author: Suzy Hansen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374712441
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive "A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world." —Hisham Matar, The New York Times Book Review In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country—and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. She came to understand that anti-Americanism is not a violent pathology. It is, Hansen writes, “a broken heart . . . A one-hundred-year-old relationship.” Blending memoir, journalism, and history, and deeply attuned to the voices of those she met on her travels, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America’s place in the world. It is a powerful journey of self-discovery and revelation—a profound reckoning with what it means to be American in a moment of grave national and global turmoil.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374712441
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive "A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world." —Hisham Matar, The New York Times Book Review In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country—and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. She came to understand that anti-Americanism is not a violent pathology. It is, Hansen writes, “a broken heart . . . A one-hundred-year-old relationship.” Blending memoir, journalism, and history, and deeply attuned to the voices of those she met on her travels, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America’s place in the world. It is a powerful journey of self-discovery and revelation—a profound reckoning with what it means to be American in a moment of grave national and global turmoil.
Find Your Strongest Life
Author: Marcus Buckingham
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1418578495
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1418578495
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Silverado Squatters
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Go-between
Jessie Willcox Smith
Author: Nudelman, Edward D.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455606665
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Arranged in chronological order, each illustration is accompanied by complete bibliographical information, including pagination, issue date, physical description, and other notations. Every cover of each first-edition book reproduced in color.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455606665
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Arranged in chronological order, each illustration is accompanied by complete bibliographical information, including pagination, issue date, physical description, and other notations. Every cover of each first-edition book reproduced in color.
The American Hebrew
Another Country
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804149712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic. Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this "brilliantly and fiercely told" book (The New York Times) depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804149712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic. Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this "brilliantly and fiercely told" book (The New York Times) depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read