The most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A book that must be read by all who are concerned about the present and future of a part of our world to which Western civilization has always been, and will continue to be, vitally connected.” —The Washington Post Book World
“A sparkling intellectual guidebook…An engrossing journey not to be missed.” —The Wall Street Journal
“A complex, illuminating vision written with a novelist's eye for the telling detail and a reporter's knack for the revealing quote.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Perhaps no other book written for a popular audience has so successfully explained the unexplainable….This book is an annotated road map to the past, and a brilliant crystal ball for the future.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Fascinating...Friedman has mastered his subject.” —Time
