The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism | Ron Suskind

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism | Ron Suskind | Ron Suskind is a great writer/wordsmith

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	The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism Ron Suskind Harper, 2008 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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Stunning revelations

This book floored me. Page after page I was stunned by the revelations. What amplifies it is that Suskind has everything meticulously documented. I think this book will be the key historical document to break the whole thing wide open (like the Pentagon Papers during Watergate). The credibility of our nation is truly in jeapardy by the despicable events detailed in Suskind's book. He is an American hero and patriot for coming forward with the truth.

Ron Suskind is a great writer/wordsmith

I'll make my review brief: I agree with everything said in this book and all the other books about this dark, tragic period in American history...but let me add: Ron Suskind is a phenomenal writer/wordsmith of the highest order. This is as good as American non-fiction prose gets!!!

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"well, gee, willikers...are we THAT bad?"

A reviewer writes, "I continue to be astonished that citizens of the US are not burning tires in the streets and surrounding the White House..."

The reason we are not engaged in the moral act--and reponsibility--of civil disobedience is because owing to a protracted period of quote-unquote obedience to authority (read: "we were only following orders") we are now, effectively, morally LAME, that's why. We are here at Amazon's comment page venting impotently. i.e., just what the corporate mandarins--and, therefore, D.C., the "shadow" of corporate Power--have set us up for. This is part and parcel of the American ENTITLEMENT myth--we are ENTITLED to enslave blacks, we are ENTITLED to (virtually) annihilate Native Americans, we are ENTITLED to work six-year olds twelve hours a day in New England Mills. After all, folks, when you have an Empire to build, what the hey, you gotta break SOME eggs if you want an omelet! Right?

Yet, someone forgot to mention (darn it!) that concomitant to all of the benefits of Empire building comes responsibilities--which we readily shrug off, i.e., being of little consequence to US.

To illustrate: Suskind reports at some length on the existence of an interrogation room underneath the White House [!]. A reviewer, however, is INDIGNANT at Amazon for a lax book review policy. Quel audace! So much for burning tires today...

Let's continue venting--WE will feel better in a moment. And THAT'S what counts (either that or we will forget what we were supposed to do today).

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Important book, but with a schmaltz gallore

Ron Suskind certainly knows his business: this is an important book, and I'm hoping there will be some congressional investigation on the basis of his revelations. Some of them are new, some not so much. Besides chapter on completely fake info on Iraq and refusal to accept information from Iraqi's chief spy, there is a great 'cloak-and-dagger' story about Benazir Bhutto. It is hard to read this and not feel evil of having a clueless president and really psychopathic vice president. This is certainly one more of the 'must reads' for an informed citizen.
But I gave it three stars for the amount of schmaltz and choppy composition. There are a few sugar-comma inducing descriptions, particularly one about anniversary of 9/11 in NYC. Choppy storyline makes for a slightly annoying read. I'm still faintly puzzled to the usefulness of the stories about two young Muslim men, who feature prominently in the book. Both stories are certainly compelling, but their connection to the main storyline is, at best, tenuous.
Regardless, this is a must read book. By now, most of the public which has been paying attention, understands fairly well what has been going on in the last 7 1/2 years. This book peels off few more layers of the lie we have all been living in.

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