Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931 EAN: 9780061430626 ISBN: 0061430625 Label: Harper Manufacturer: Harper Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: August 01, 2008 Publisher: Harper Release Date: August 05, 2008 Sales Rank: 6021 Studio: Harper
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Rating: - The Impact of Ignorance
Ron Suskind's The Way of the World is a great book to read while we wait for a new president to take office. Suskind had excellent sources in the Bush Administration, but it's his ability to set the information he receives into cultural reality that makes his work extraordinary. In this book, particularly, he is able to show how policy was made in the intellectual vacuum of the White House and how it impacted the lives of individuals whose stories Suskind tells in careful detail.
Rating: - What Moral Authority?
No need to cover points already made by others. There's one underlying assumption of the book I want to take issue with. Repeatedly, author Suskind alludes to America's lost moral authority, which he sees as a principal casualty of the Bush administration's cynical war on terrorism. Now, I'm wondering just where that lost moral authority resides or has resided. Seems to me that an unbiased reading of the country's history provides little evidence of any repository of moral authority that could be ... Read More
Rating: - Thank you
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Rating: - Individual perspectives amidst geopolitical issues
This insightful book melds individual stories of "east and west" and the urgent geopolitical issues we face today. An amazingly good read.
Rating: - great book
The book is a must read if you want to understand the assault on the constitution during the Bush administration.
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- The Impact of Ignorance
- What Moral Authority?