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by Gary Younge

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With a sharp pencil, and a sharper eye, our protagonist shades the contours of a fractured nation. Combining insight and panache, he has precisely captured the intricacies of a nation perplexed at its growing isolation from the rest of the world and often bitterly divided against itself.

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Black, opinionated, and with a distinctly working-class London accent, Gary Younge is not your typical foreign correspondent. Yet, in three years as The Guardian newspaper's New York correspondent, Younge has acquired a transatlantic reputation as one of the most thoughtful commentators on contemporary America. Combining insight and panache, he has precisely captured the intricacies of a nation perplexed at its growing isolation from the rest of the world and often bitterly divided against itself.

In these pages we listen in on expansive discussions with, among others, Warren Beatty, Michael Moore, Louis Farrakhan, Susan Sontag, and Maya Angelou. We take the stage with an extravagantly attired drag queen in John Ashcroft's hometown, join the dinner table of a fundamentalist Republican who has just lost his son in the Iraq war, and ride a bus with a group of Guatemalan strawberry pickers on a latter-day Freedom Ride to Washington, D.C. Throughout we are in the company of a guide whose restless curiosity is framed with sharp political intelligence.


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  • Title Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States
  • Author Gary Younge
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 301
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, New York United States
  • Publication date 2006-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781595580689 / 1595580689
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.32 x 5.7 x 0.95 in (21.13 x 14.48 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Category Travel - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Iraq War, 2003-, National characteristics, American
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005058043
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.931

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 06/27/2014, Page 22
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2006, Page 84

About the author

Gary Younge has been on the staff of The Guardian since 1994, and is a frequent contributor to The Nation. He was the recipient of the Washington Post's Lawrence Stern Fellowship in 1996, and his previous book, No Place Like Home, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in New York City.
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