Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11

Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11
by Thomas L. Friedman

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Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2002-09-11
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Book Review: a reporter who does not look away
Summary: 5 Stars

Any thoughtful person will be outraged by at least a few of these essays. I cannot tell which ones those will be--because, dear reader, I do not know your politics. I do know that when it comes to the Middle East, everyone seems to have an opinion and as Thomas Friedman in this book challenges virtually all of the commonly-held ones (on the left and the right alike) it is quite likely that you, like me, will mutter over some essay "You utter idiot." But I hope you won't put the book down.

For Thomas Friedman (unlike so many) has the courage to gaze into the heart of darkness in the Middle East that made 9/11, the Islamists' war against the West, and their war against the Jews possible. And Thomas Friedman reports what he sees.

He tells us that our Arab partners do not present "an alternative positive view of America [in their countries]--even though they were sending their kids here to be educated." He tells us that "the terrorists can exploit the Interned.. but in their suffocated world.. they could never invent it." He tells us that "these terrorists aren't out for a new kind of coexistence with us. They are out for our nonexistence." He tells about how a friendship with an Arab Muslim intellectual disappeared when the intellectual questioned him about how Jews run the world and he tells us how frustrated the Jordanians are that the intifada and not the remarkable Jordanian reforms are dominating Jordanian news.

In short, Thomas Freidman refuses to conform to facile "truths" of today; he refuses to look away. You may, at times find him frustrating and angry; you may get angry with him. But you will not find him substituting fashionable ideology for what he sees. For that reason, I recommend his book.

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Summary of Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11

America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11th--before, during and after

As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman is in a unique position to interpret the world for American readers. Twice a week, Friedman's celebrated commentary provides the most trenchant, pithy,and illuminating perspective in journalism.

Longitudes and Attitudes contains the columns Friedman has published about the most momentous news story of our time, as well as a diary of his experiences and reactions during this period of crisis. As the author writes, the book is "not meant to be a comprehensive study of September 11 and all the factors that went into it. Rather, my hope is that it will constitute a 'word album' that captures and preserves the raw, unpolished, emotional and analytical responses that illustrate how I, and others, felt as we tried to grapple with September and its aftermath, as they were unfolding."

Readers have repeatedly said that Friedman has expressed the essence of their own feelings, helping them not only by explaining who "they" are, but also by reassuring us about who "we" are. More than any other journalist writing, Friedman gives voice to America's awakening sense of its role in a changed world.

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