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

On September 11 2001 Mark Hertsgaard was completing a trip around the world gathering perceptions about America from people in fifteen countries. Whether sophisticated business leaders starry-eyed teenagers or Islamic fundamentalists his subjects were both admiring and uneasy about the United States enchanted yet bewildered appalled yet envious. Exploring such paradoxes Hertsgaard exposes truths that force natives and outsiders alike to see America with fresh eyes. In a world growing more American by the day The Eagles Shadow is a major statement about and to the place everyone discusses but few understand.