Ronald Wright

What Is America? (eBook, ePUB)

A Short History of the New World Order

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the six years since 9/11, as the bush regime has squandered domestic solidarity and international goodwill, many of the archetypes and ideals with which we've traditionally framed the American enterprise now seem endangered, even hollow. This raises the question, has America ever been what it thinks it is? What Is America? goes to the heart of that inquiry. Ranging with dazzling expertise through anthropology, history, and literature, Wright reconfigures our self-perception, arguing that the "essence” of America can be traced to the foundations of our history-literally to the collision of worlds that began in 1492, as one civilization subsumed another-and exploring how these currents continue to shape our world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grand Central Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780786726066
• Artikelnr.: 49075494

Autorenporträt

Ronald Wright is an award-winning novelist, historian, and essayist. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Award for Fiction and was a Sunday Times, Globe and Mail, and New York Times book of the year. Ronald Wright lives in British Columbia.