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A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
Harper
August 2008
On Sale: August 5, 2008
432 pages
ISBN: 0061430625
EAN: 9780061430626
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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