The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism - Rilegato

Suskind, Ron

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ISBN 10: 1847371175 ISBN 13: 9781847371171

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

This is an original and devastating look at the post-9/11 world from one of America's most incisive and insightful political commentators. It explores how America and the West lost their way as well as the struggles of their respective governments to reclaim the moral authority on which their survival demands.

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Recensione:

'MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence was passed to the US but was buried by the White House, according to a new book’
The Times 6/8

'Ron Suskind, a US journalist, claimed yesterday that the White House had faked a letter purporting to establish a link between Saddam and al-Qaida in the run-up to war. The letter, published in the Daily Telegraph, was supposedly written by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, director of Iraqi intelligence, in 2001'
Guardian 6/8

'Tony Blair and President George W Bush ignored "credible" intelligence that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction'
Daily Telegraph 6/8
‘Suskind is never unsympathetic to his characters, who he appears to have debriefed extensively. He is a romantic, a writer who clearly believes that his country has betrayed its past, its values and its moral compass by failing to tell the truth about the war.... A vivid snapshot of a year, 2006 – 2007’
The Sunday Times 26/8
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‘Vivid and damning account of a year in Washington’s war on terror’
The Sunday Times 31/8
‘Suskind does enough to show that he is a superb investigative reporter’
Observer, 5/10
'A tour de force'
Literary Review Nov issue
‘Hundreds of people have vanished into the Orwellian limbo of America’s war on terror, where they endure torture, detention and no proper legal representation. It is a country of which many citizens are ashamed. That shame is the subject of this lively portrait of a group of people touched by the war, one that includes George Bush, Benazir Bhutto and a Guantanamo Bay lawyer. Suskind clearly believes that his country has reneged on its values and lost its moral compass by failing to tell the truth about the war. This is a vivid snapshot of a year, 2006-2007, in the life of a nation whose leaders have betrayed its high moral purpose’
The Sunday Times 14/9

‘What a feat of non-fiction writing! Ron Suskind gives us a year in the life of the War on Terror. The year begins in the summer of 2006. It’s a sweeping performance. Suskind takes you into the White House. He gets into the head of George Bush. He explains, at thriller pace, the tensions between Blair and Bush as the plot to blow up transatlantic planes is foiled. He follows the lives of a Pakistani guy in Washington DC, an Afghan boy in Denver and a Guantanamo lawyer. Very, very well executed’
Evening Standard 17/9
‘[Suskind’s] account is anchored in excellent research and contains an uplifting message: that Americans have finally turned the corner and begun to realise that “fear is not a source of strength”’
Observer 4/10

L'autore:

Ron Suskind was the WALL STREET JOURNAL's senior national affairs reporter from 1993 to 2000, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing while working there. He is the author of several acclaimed books and lives in Washington DC with his wife and two sons.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847371175
• ISBN 13: 9781847371171
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 432