Friendly Fire

Julia E. Sweig. Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century.
Hardcover with dust jacket: 222pp. Public Affairs; Perseus Books Group 2006.

"...we [Americans] convinced ourselves that pre-emptive Americanism was a policy that could be shipped worldwide. This proved to be a big misjudgment. . . . Anti-Americanism flourished among America's closest allies . . . in a way, and to a depth, not seen before. As this reaches a crucial tipping point, Julia E. Sweig offers a masterly and incisive history of what went wrong, and a feisty and compelling prescription for how to sort it out." -- from the jacket.