Product Description
Britain may not be divided physically, but it lives culturally, economically and socially in a constant tension between Europe and America. And it's divided politically between a Right which argues that our place is with America, not Europe, and a Left which claims the opposite. This is today's English civil war. Both sides tell us we must choose between Europe and America. But how can we choose, when Britain has two faces pointing in opposite directions? Garton Ash argues that the beginning of national wisdom is to accept that this is who we are, that Britain faces both ways. What follows is, he says, a liberation, and a challenge. In this stimulating new book, Garton Ash examines how this has happened, and argues that Britain should resist choosing between Europe and America, but embrace a new role in harmony with both, and that instead of destructively bickering as we have for decades, we should be concentrating on grander and more durable aspirations for political freedom.
About the Author
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 essay 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.
