The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World.

AuthorWasserman, Harvey

by Mark Hertsgaard Farrar Straus & Giroux. 246 pages. $23.00.

Mark Hertsgaard's book becomes timelier every day. Written in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, this globe-trotting survey of "what they think of us" is, given recent events, deeply saddening.

We Americans justly pride ourselves on the first anti-colonial revolution and the Bill of Rights. Hertsgaard's interviews show an outside world even more in love with this achievement and these freedoms than many...

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