Notes on a Foreign Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Notes on a Foreign Country write by Suzy Hansen. This book was released on 2017-08-15. Notes on a Foreign Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Notes on a Foreign Country
Notes on a Foreign Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Notes on a Foreign Country write by Suzy Hansen. This book was released on 2017-08-15. Notes on a Foreign Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A ... reflection on America's role in the world from the perspective of a young woman who has been living in Istanbul for the past six years"--
My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir
My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir write by Brian Turner. This book was released on 2014-09-15. My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Brilliant and beautiful. It surely ranks with the best war memoirs I’ve ever encountered." —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried An award-winning poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, Brian Turner combines his devastating recollections as “Sergeant Turner” with his visions of the experiences of generations of warriors in his family—and even those of the enemy—in a work of profound understanding and shocking beauty.
The Past is a Foreign Country
The Past is a Foreign Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Past is a Foreign Country write by David Lowenthal. This book was released on 1985-11-14. The Past is a Foreign Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.
America Through Foreign Eyes
America Through Foreign Eyes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America Through Foreign Eyes write by Jorge G. Castañeda. This book was released on 2020. America Through Foreign Eyes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Foreigners have been writing about the United States ever since its foundation. Now it is my turn. But please don't hold this against me: the United States itself is at fault. Like a great many people on earth, I've long been fascinated by this remarkable phenomenon which calls itself America. My fate -or perhaps good fortune- has been that of a foreigner who for half a century lived the American experience-as a child, as a student, as an author, as a recurrent visitor and as a university professor. Being Mexican places me in a special category: having lost half its territory to the United States in the 19th century, having found itself caught up in the maelstrom of America's current identity crisis, Mexico can never ignore what happens north of the border. Further, while serving as Mexico's Foreign Minister from 2000 to 2003, I had the privilege of peeping inside the machinery of power that makes this great nation tick. That said, this book is not written from a Mexican perspective but rather from that of a sympathetic foreign critic who has seen the United States from both inside and outside. And its hope is to contribute something to how Americans view themselves and are viewed by the world. Before embarking on this journey, I naturally looked back at some of my forebears, earlier foreigners who were drawn to visit or live in the United States and who then went on to offer their version of America to their home readers. Some like the French traveler Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the early 19th century classic, Democracy in America, felt European nations had much to learn from the American democratic experiment. Others like Charles Dickens left dismayed by what he considered to be the country's singular obsession with money. But they are just two of dozens who have tried-and continue to try- to find a magic key that unlocks the complexities and contradictions of American society. Indeed, it is as if the United States seeks to challenge foreign writers to explain it, confident they will fail. And in taking it on, these outsiders have variously experienced frustration, hope, anger, excitement, disappointment and enlightenment- but never indifference"--
