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The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
written by Ron Suskind
Studio : Harper
by Harper
Release Date : 2008-08-05
Publisher : Harper
Released : 2008-08-01
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Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780061430626
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 18 reviews)
List Price : $27.95
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Product Description |
From Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation s struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to the sands of Guantánamo, Suskind offers an astonishing story that connects world leaders to the forces waging today s shadow wars and to the next generation of global citizens. Tracking down truth and hope within the Beltway and far beyond it, Suskind delivers historic disclosures with this emotionally stirring and strikingly original portrait of the post-9/11 world.
In a sweeping, propulsive, and multilayered narrative, The Way of the World investigates how America relinquished the moral leadership it now desperately needs to fight the real threat of our era: a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. Truth, justice, and accountability become more than mere words in this story. Suskind shows where the most neglected dangers lie in the story of The Armageddon Test a desperate gamble to send undercover teams into the world s nuclear black market to frustrate the efforts of terrorists trying to procure weapons-grade uranium. In the end, he finally reveals for the first time the explosive falsehood underlying the Iraq War and the entire Bush presidency.
While the public and political realms struggle, The Way of the World simultaneously follows an ensemble of characters in America and abroad who are turning fear and frustration into a desperate and often daring brand of human salvation. They include a striving, twenty-four-year-old Pakistani émigré, a fearless UN refugee commissioner, an Afghan teenager, a Holocaust survivor s son, and Benazir Bhutto, who discovers, days before her death, how she s been abandoned by the United States at her moment of greatest need. They are all testing American values at a time of peril, and discovering solutions human solutions to so much that has gone wrong.
For anyone hoping to exercise truly informed consent and begin the process of restoring the values and hope along with the moral clarity and earned optimism at the heart of the American tradition, The Way of the World is a must-read. |
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation’s struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to the sands of Guantánamo, Suskind offers an astonishing story that connects world leaders to the forces waging today’s shadow wars and to the next generation of global citizens. Tracking down truth and hope within the Beltway and far beyond it, Suskind delivers historic disclosures with this emotionally stirring and strikingly original portrait of the post-9/11 world. In a sweeping, propulsive, and multilayered narrative, The Way of the World investigates how America relinquished the moral leadership it now desperately needs to fight the real threat of our era: a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. Truth, justice, and accountability become more than mere words in this story. Suskind shows where the most neglected dangers lie in the story of "The Armageddon Test" —a desperate gamble to send undercover teams into the world’s nuclear black market to frustrate the efforts of terrorists trying to procure weapons-grade uranium. In the end, he finally reveals for the first time the explosive falsehood underlying the Iraq War and the entire Bush presidency. While the public and political realms struggle, The Way of the World simultaneously follows an ensemble of characters in America and abroad who are turning fear and frustration into a desperate—and often daring—brand of human salvation. They include a striving, twenty-four-year-old Pakistani émigré, a fearless UN refugee commissioner, an Afghan teenager, a Holocaust survivor’s son, and Benazir Bhutto, who discovers, days before her death, how she’s been abandoned by the United States at her moment of greatest need. They are all testing American values at a time of peril, and discovering solutions—human solutions—to so much that has gone wrong. For anyone hoping to exercise truly informed consent and begin the process of restoring the values and hope—along with the moral clarity and earned optimism—at the heart of the American tradition, The Way of the World is a must-read. |
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Everyone saves everyone |
You do not have to read very far into this book to know that it is a Pulitzer-Prize winning work. It is far more than just the revelations about the abuse of power. One of his revelations, not at all publicized, is that one of his research assistants, working on one of the projects for the book, was detained by federal authorities, interrogated, and had his notes confiscated before being released.
It is an affirmation of American values - the value that we place on coming together to find common ground, often with people(s) we don't understand very well. It asserts that people and governments must get together in solving some of the great problems of our age.
We can no longer accept the notion that 'when we save you, we expect to get something in return'. To quote a statement from the book (with a slight rewording), "Things work out for the best when everyone saves everyone else and no one is owed anything in return."
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Superb, even if apparently published in a bit of a hurry |
Yes, footnotes are not included. Also, there are perhaps a dozen typos. But these small shortcomings don't matter. This book is very well written and shows a great richness of research, contacts, thought, and experience on the part of the author. It makes the case very effectively that our future depends on our humanity and that continuing the style of our current Administration would be a disaster. Very highly recommended.
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FOOTNOTES PLEASE |
THE FATAL FLAW IN THIS OTHERWISE INTRIGUING BOOK IS LACK OF DOCUMENTATION.
WHERE ARE THE COPIOUS FOOTNOTES TO BUTTRESS SUSKIND'S STARTLING ASSERTIONS?
MUCH OF THE DIALOG APPEARS CONTRIVED. ALSO THE PRESENT TENSE,SCENE DRIVEN NARRATIVE DETRACTS FROM THE IMPORTANT POINTS HE IS MAKING. EVERYBODY SAYS IT READS LIKE A NOVEL OR A MOVIE SCRIPT. SORRY THAT'S NOT REAL LIFE. I BELIEVE THAT A BOOK ON A SERIOUS SUBJECT ABOUT THE DECEPTION IN THE SO-CALLED WAR ON TERROR SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN A MORE TRADITIONAL JOURNALISTIC VEIN. |
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How Do You Spell Impeachable Offense ?? |
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Have mercy!! What to say. Saw the author in an inteview say it's written like a movie. True enough. It's a screenplay, shouldn't be any problem getting it into film. Only thing is, maybe where it belongs is on the committee where Rep. Kucinich's articles of impeachment are twisting in the wind. Now, about the book. It's beautifully written, incredibly finely woven, and perhaps the most intrigueing contribution Suskind has made is the least appropriate for a Hollywood film and the most urgent, other readers can say. Suskind's appeal is for a return to authenticity, moral authority, goodness actually, between people, nations, governments, in public life. Seem to suggest (maybe I imagined it) that we might not survive as a people if we don't change back to what we really are, really want to be, really need to be, and can be. There's an interesting powerful appeal to "selflessness" and right out of the matrix of international intrigue, moral crimes, murders, heartlessness, and the despair of it all. So odd that the characters nearly all seemed trapped in lives either ruined or nearly ruined by the lack of those cardinal values. It's a book about values, human, really spiritual or heart values, but not at all in a monastic setting. I read the book after hearing about it from my dental hygienist and then seeing the author interviewed, once by Amy Goodman and once by John Stewart and someone in between, I forget who. Suskind has done his watchman's duty as per Ezekial. He's off the hook. Now, how about we get on with some fearless impeachments. |
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IMPEACHMENT BACK ON THE TABLE? |
After the many lurid revelations of this Administration's sins, yet more are revealed here. I wish I found these imputations as "flooring" as everyone else. But, I for one, am still asking how Bush got away with delaying the investigation of 9/11 for over 400 days and how in heck he got close enough to recoup another term in office? Will this sordid, brilliantly researched and eloquently stated, dissection of yet another crime against the people of the world (not merely American citizens), finally get Conyers, et al, to do what is necessitated by their sworn duty to uphold the explicit decree of our Founders? That, my fellow Marketadvisoryians, is yet another question which should never have had to have been asked.
Here we are, sinking in a morass of debt, engaged in a futile and brutally destructive war of aggression fought for the gain of a few, our rights and privacy disappearing by the nanosecond, traceable to eight years of extreme mis-government, and Congress refuses to act.
Susskind lays out decisive material evidence for impeachment (as if eight years of blatant conflict of interest were not enough) before the reading public. Will it finally be acted upon? That is the question. That such a distinguished effort should come to naught, would not only justify crimes against humanity, but those against literature, as well. |
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