Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

"We, the free, face a daunting opportunity. Previous generations could only dream of a free world. Now we can begin to make it." In his welcome alternative to the rampant pessimism about Euro-American relations, award-winning historian Timothy Garton Ash shares an inspiring vision for how the United States and Europe can collaborate to promote a free world.

At the start of the twenty-first century, the West has plunged into crisis. Europe tries to define itself in opposition to America, and America increasingly regards Europe as troublesome and irrelevant. What is to become of what we used to call "the free world"? Part history, part manifesto, Free World offers both a scintillating assessment of our current geopolitical quandary and a vitally important argument for the future of liberty and the shared values of the West.

Author: Timothy Garton Ash
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/06/2005
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781400076468

About the Author

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of seven previous books of political writing and "history of the present," which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter century. They include The Polish Revolution, The Uses of Adversity, The Magic Lantern, The File, and History of the Present. He is the Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books, and he writes a column in the Guardian that is syndicated across Europe and the Americas.