FREE WORLD Why a Crisis in the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our Time by Timothy Garton Ash

Pt. 1. Crisis -- A Crisis Of The West -- Janus Britain -- Putney -- Island World, World Island -- Janus Between Europe And America -- Four Strategies And A Pelting Farm -- Churchill And Churchillisms -- The Blair Bridge Project -- So Now? -- Europe As Not-america -- A Nation Is Proclaimed -- Five Hundred Million Characters In Search Of An Other -- Gaullism Versus Churchillism -- German Emotions -- Is Europe Better Than America? -- Euroatlanticism -- A Power For What? -- America, The Powerful -- Inside The Giant -- A Tale Of Two New Europes -- European Americans At Work -- Unilateralism -- War -- Return To A New Starting-point -- Partner? -- The New Red Armies -- Terror Against Hope -- Near East -- Far East -- Rich North, Poor South -- Humans Threaten Earth -- Together? -- Crisis As Opportunity -- Pt. 2. Opportunity -- Twenty Years And A Thousand Million Citizens -- Britain Finds Its Role -- What Europe Can Be -- Uncle Sam -- Towards A Free World -- What Can We Do?. Timothy Garton Ash. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, from unique conversations with leaders such as Bush, Blair and Schroder to encounters with farmers in Kansas and soldiers in Aldershot, from history, memoir and opinion polls to personal observations based on a quarter-century of travelling in Europe and the US, Timothy Garton Ash demolishes the popular claim that Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus. He shows why Washington can never rule the world on its own, why the new, enlarged Europe can only realize its aspirations in a larger, transatlantic community, and why the torments of the Middle East and the developing world can only be addressed by Europeans and Americans working together."--BOOK JACKET 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.