Longitudes and Attitudes

Oct 17, 2024 11:23 PM

Author:Thomas L. Friedman

Longitudes and Attitudes brings together reportage and reflections by one of the world's most admired journalists about the state of the world leading up to and after September 11, 2001 - the most momentous news story of our time. Travelling throughout the Middle East and Europe, Friedman talks to men and women in bazaars, schools and alleyways, as well as the world's leading political figures, developing and refining his unique perspective on the new kind of war the West finds itself fighting.

Reviews

A brilliant and accomplished writer

—— Annie Proulx

Intricate and touching... As ambitious as it is intelligent... Reinforces Johnston's right to be considered one of the major figures in Canadian fiction

—— Iain Pears , Independent

Johnston's skill at marrying the political and historical with the personal and a spellbinding sense of place is remarkable

—— New Statesman

Johnston is one of the finest writers on the scene

—— Time Out

There is something new and rare here, a genuinely unsettling wit with a terrible tang of truth

—— Sunday Telegraph

Here is a fine Iliad for our times, to be read with great pleasure

—— Philip Howard , The Times

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