Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States - Softcover

Younge, Gary

 
9781595580689: Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1595580689 ISBN 13: 9781595580689
Verlag: The New Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Black, opinionated, and with a distinctly working-class London accent, Gary Younge is not your typical foreign correspondent. Yet, in three years as The Guardian newspaper's New York correspondent, Younge has acquired a transatlantic reputation as one of the most thoughtful commentators on contemporary America. Combining insight and panache, he has precisely captured the intricacies of a nation perplexed at its growing isolation from the rest of the world and often bitterly divided against itself.

In these pages we listen in on expansive discussions with, among others, Warren Beatty, Michael Moore, Louis Farrakhan, Susan Sontag, and Maya Angelou. We take the stage with an extravagantly attired drag queen in John Ashcroft's hometown, join the dinner table of a fundamentalist Republican who has just lost his son in the Iraq war, and ride a bus with a group of Guatemalan strawberry pickers on a latter-day Freedom Ride to Washington, D.C. Throughout we are in the company of a guide whose restless curiosity is framed with sharp political intelligence.


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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gary Younge has been on the staff of The Guardian since 1994, and is a frequent contributor to The Nation. He was the recipient of the Washington Post's Lawrence Stern Fellowship in 1996, and his previous book, No Place Like Home, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in New York City.

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Verlag
The New Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1595580689
ISBN 13 
9781595580689
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
301
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