Book description
At the start of the 21st century, the world plunged into crisis. What
began as an attack on the West by Osama bin Laden soon became a dramatic
confrontation between Europe and America. Britain has found itself
painfully split, because it stands with one foot across the Atlantic and
the other across the Channel. The English, in particular, are hopelessly
divided between a Right that argues our place is with America, not
Europe, and a Left that claims the opposite. This is today's English
civil war. Both sides tell us we must choose. In this powerful new work
Timothy Garton Ash, one of our leading political writers, explains why
we cannot, need not and must not choose between Europe and America.
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of seven books of contemporary history
or "history of the present", including The Polish Revolution,
We The People, The Uses of Adversity and History of the Present (all
published by Penguin). His essays and reportages appear regularly in the
New York Review of Books and other journals, and he writes a column in
the Guardian. He is Director of the European Studies Centre at St.
Antony's College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University. In June 2004 he was named by Prospect magazine as
one of Britain's hundred most influential thinkers.
