Description: Barber offers a bold lens through which to understand the chaotic events of the post-Cold War world and, in the tradition of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, explains the forces at work, why democracy is under siege, and what the consequences are for citizenship.
Review Quotes: "An important new book."¶
--Newsweek
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"Mr. Barber is. . . the first to put Jihad and McWorld together in an inescapable dialectic . . . . [It] stands as a bold invitation to debate the broad contours and future of society."¶
--Barbara Ehrenreich¶
The New York Times Book Review¶
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"COMPELLING. . . IMPRESSIVE. . . A thorough, engaging look at the current state of world affairs."¶
--The American Reporter
--San Francisco Chronicle
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"Barber is well worth reading. . . for an introduction to the real world, look at Jihad vs. McWorld."¶
--The Nation¶ "Stimulating, tartly written."¶
--Publishers Weekly