Book description
How can America be so powerful and yet so naive? So ignorant of foreign lands, peoples and languages yet certain it knows what’s best for everyone? How can its individual citizens be open and generous but its foreign policy so domineering? And why is it shocked when the objects of its policies grumble, protest or even strike back?
Hertsgaard explores why America leaves observers at home and abroad both admiring yet uneasy, envious and appalled, enchanted but bewildered. And what choices and challenges face us in a world that becomes more Americanized every day?
