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In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the US-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country - and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world.
©2017 Suzy Hansen (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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5 out of 5 stars
By Parveen Mehdi-Newton on 12-08-17

A MUST-READ for all Truth-Seeking American wh

Like the author of this book I too was brainwashed and misled about our country's past and even the present. I actually came to the U.S. with my family in 1971 from India when I was 7 and have been here since. I am also a female, moderate Muslim on a journey to seek the truth about the role America played in Muslim countries. There HAD to be a valid reason why so many Muslims abroad are so ANGRY and even violent towards The West.

Suzy's book not only helped me pull out of my amnesia but it also opened Pandora's box on America's ugly doings all around the world that history books don't share. I had an educational awakening. I liked it when Suzy was asked, "why is it that we know your history (because of America's involvement in their country) but you do not know ours?" In today's dirty political climate it's our responsibility to educate ourselves about the wrong that's being done especially to the countries with little resources (perhaps because we stripped them of theirs!).

I'm recommending this book to most of my friends and family. And will probably look at the books Suzy quotes from. I appreciate her bravery to travel as she has and to become better informed about the country we love and call home. But there is work to be done. Big time.

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5 out of 5 stars
By Tulay C on 08-26-17

Learned so much.

I was born in Istanbul, but didn't know many things. Learned about Ataturk and U.S.A.
This book must be read by all humans.
Didn't like the narrator, she should have learned real Turkish names. She was reading /talking like Americans will pronounce them.

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