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Title: Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 by Thomas L. Friedman ISBN: 0374190666 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 11 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18
Rating: 5
Summary: Effectively conveys post 9/11 political and emotional landsc
Comment: Mr. Friedman, writing from his vantage point as foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, has crafted a book that navigates the post-9/11 political and emotional landscape. The bulk of the book consists of his twice-a-week Pulitzer Prize-winning column in The New York Times from the period a month or so before 9/11 to almost 9 months after the unspeakable event. After the columns, Friedman has devoted 84 pages towards a diary where he delves into further detail about the topics discussed in the columns of the book.
Many of the columns (and the book) stem from Friedman's focus to understand what would drive 19 middle class educated lunatics to hate life more than to love it. From this basic premise, Friedman explores the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Arab education systems (especially the religious schools), U.S. foreign policies, and U.S. domestic policies to name just a few.
Friedman has an extraordinary background in the Arab-Israeli conflict (read his From Beirut to Jerusalem book) and thus is able to cogently portray the issues from as many sides as possible. Friedman bashes the religious zealots in the Arab world for spreading hatred, the political correctness in the U.S. who claim that America is somehow responsible, as well as the Israelis for colonizing areas they probably shouldn't be in. But some of the columns are witty as they are insightful ("Naked Air" where he wryly and symbolically advocates the creation of an airline where all the passengers must fly naked in order to ensure maximum security.).
Within this book, Friedman further tells us why America is such a great country through the things that he observes - his daughter's multicultural middle school, the enormous outpouring of support for the victims' families after 9/11, and the insurmountable military might of a country, etc. When you are finished, you should be left with more understanding about the mosaic causes of the horrible events of 9/11 coupled with a greater appreciation of why America is such a great country and will be stronger than before.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfectly encapsulated knowledge and wisdom.
Comment: This book is a perfect follow up to The Lexus And The Olive Tree.
A collection of NYT columns before and after 9/11, and a small personal commentary on it all, Friedman captures all the rage, the search for meaning, the demand for justice....he gets it all in there. He says everything you've thought. He also presents the dilemma of the middle east in easy-to-understand terms, which is more difficult than it sounds. Thoughout his writing is an anger--anger against the politics and the fundamentalist extremists of the middle east, and also anger against the same of the US.
He's the first one I've read so far to intelligently take President Bush to task for his lack of foreign affairs skill and his embarrassing butt-kissing of oil and big business. Bush is the first president in the history of the United States who has never read the Constitution.
Friedman's anger is tempered by his love of America and his pride of our freedom, and this constantly shows through in brilliant rays throughout the book.
If you only want to know a little bit more about the current world
this book will satisfy greatly. If you want deep insight into the problem of the middle east and terrorism, this book will fascinate.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Compilations
Comment: Thomas Friedman has written a compilation of columns between 12-2000 and 7-2002 as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. Twice a week from his position on the Times' opinion page, he has written about international affairs, the Middle East, or whatever has struck his fancy.
This book has also included the 9/11 columns, to include travel notes that didn't quite make it into print, and his insights into the Muslim world after years of living and reporting from there.
This is an interesting perspective, from a well-known and highly respected journalist.
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Title: From Beirut to Jerusalem (Updated with a New Chapter) by Thomas L. Friedman ISBN: 0385413726 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman ISBN: 0385499345 Publisher: Anchor Books Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Bush at War by Bob Woodward ISBN: 0743204735 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century by Michael Mandelbaum ISBN: 1586481347 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael Beschloss ISBN: 0684810271 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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