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Overview

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to the sands of Guantánamo, Suskind offers an astonishing story that connects world leaders to the forces waging today's shadow wars and to the next generation of global citizens. Tracking down truth and hope within the Beltway and far beyond it, Suskind delivers historic disclosures with this emotionally stirring and strikingly original ...

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From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to the sands of Guantánamo, Suskind offers an astonishing story that connects world leaders to the forces waging today's shadow wars and to the next generation of global citizens. Tracking down truth and hope within the Beltway and far beyond it, Suskind delivers historic disclosures with this emotionally stirring and strikingly original portrait of the post-9/11 world.

In a sweeping, propulsive, and multilayered narrative, The Way of the World investigates how America relinquished the moral leadership it now desperately needs to fight the real threat of our era: a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists. Truth, justice, and accountability become more than mere words in this story. Suskind shows where the most neglected dangers lie in the story of "The Armageddon Test" —a desperate gamble to send undercover teams into the world's nuclear black market to frustrate the efforts of terrorists trying to procure weapons-grade uranium. In the end, he finally reveals for the first time the explosive falsehood underlying the Iraq War and the entire Bush presidency.

While the public and political realms struggle, The Way of the World simultaneously follows an ensemble of characters in America and abroad who are turning fear and frustration into a desperate—and often daring—brand of human salvation. Theyinclude a striving, twenty-four-year-old Pakistani émigré, a fearless UN refugee commissioner, an Afghan teenager, a Holocaust survivor's son, and Benazir Bhutto, who discovers, days before her death, how she's been abandoned by the United States at her moment of greatest need. They are all testing American values at a time of peril, and discovering solutions—human solutions—to so much that has gone wrong.

For anyone hoping to exercise truly informed consent and begin the process of restoring the values and hope—along with the moral clarity and earned optimism—at the heart of the American tradition, The Way of the World is a must-read.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061430626
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 8/5/2008
  • Pages: 432
  • Product dimensions: 6.40 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Ron Suskind was from 1993 to 2000 the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. The author of The One Percent Doctrine, The Price of Loyalty, and A Hope in the Unseen, he lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their two sons.

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The Way of the World
A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism

Chapter One

Welcome Home

Usman Khosa awakes to the voices of his roommates in the kitchen. A hazy sun is shining in, giving the exposed brick above his bed an orange hue. He checks his night-table clock—7:15—and slips back into the deep sleep of a young man.

It is morning in America. Or at least in an apartment near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., where three young, well-educated men start a summer's day. They are friends, a few years out of Connecticut College, dancing through the anxious glories of first jobs and few obligations. It's a guy's world. Linas, a strapping Catholic, American-born, with Midwestern roots, is an economic analyst; David, Jewish and gay, with wavy brown hair and movie-idol looks, is a public relations staffer for an international aid organization. After breakfast, they slip out together, each in a blazer and khakis, Christian and Jew, straight and gay, into the flow of the capital's professional class.

Their Muslim roommate hears the front door shut and rises with a sense of well-being. He'd worked late, as usual, and then met some friends for dinner, a night that went late with loud talk and drink. He came south to D.C. from Connecticut just over three years ago, a day after receiving his diploma with its summa cum laude seal, to a waiting desk at an international economic consulting firm, Barnes Richardson, with offices across the street from the U.S. Treasury Department and a block from the White House. He finds the work fascinating because it is: taking sides in bloodless struggles between countries and their majorcorporations over product dumping and tariffs. Trade wars. It's the kind of conflict that smart folks thought the world was moving toward in the mercantile 1990s, when the Soviet Union's fall was to usher in a post-ideological age, a period when aggression would be expressed, say, with tariffs on imported cars and wheat dumping. It was a hopeful notion that issues of progress and grievance, the fortunes of haves and have-nots, would be fought on an economic field where the score could be kept in terms of GDP, per capita income, and infant mortality rates. It wouldn't turn out that way, as the few who saw the rise of religious extremism foretold.

And that's why the boy brushing his teeth this particular morning—July 27, 2006—is not just any young professional on the make. He is, notably, a Muslim from the fault line country of Pakistan—the home, at present, of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, Pervez Musharraf and Mullah Omar, fifty-five nuclear weapons and countless angry bands of Islamic radicals. Usman, from this place, of this place, strives with an ardent, white-hot yearning to be accepted into America's current firmament of fading hopes. Like each fresh wave of newcomers, he presses mightily to make that hope new. Whether he means to or not, he's testing American ideals at a time of peril.

It's a fault of cultural nearsightedness, or worse, that he is not immediately seen as identical to immigrants glorified in oft-told tales of potato famines or Russian pogroms or, back further, a search to worship freely by some Mayflower stowaway. He is, after all, identical to them in every essential way.

But his journey involves a blue '78 Toyota Corolla. In Pakistan, a car is a symbol of a man who can move as he wishes, where he wishes. A new one is a rarity, a luxury, and Usman's father, Tariq, was given the car as a wedding gift from his father, who told Tariq that a married man should have a car, and he should be his "own man, beholden to no one."

The Khosas have a deep history in the region that now lies at the geographical heart of modern-day Pakistan, but the family is not among the few dozen elite who long ruled South Asia and cut deals with the British when the empire took over in the 1860s. The shaping hand of the Brits is still keenly felt in the region, particularly in its cutthroat academic tradition. Competition would be too generous a word. It was more emancipation through recitation, a test of classical British learning with a million contestants, a handful of winners, and enormous prizes, all determined by a crucible known as the civil ser-vice exam. In the vast country of India, a fraction of the highest scorers would win coveted acceptance into the civil service—the bureaucracy, running their country for the British—which came with grants of significant leverage over their countrymen and subtly stolen rewards. Even after India broke free in 1947, the civil service test remained, grandfathered in by the country's ruling elite, who could recall the posting of scores—the day, the minute, the sensation—like a family's second birth, cited often and judiciously from parent to child across eras.

Usman's grandfather, a very good student, finished one slot out of the money, so to speak, but carried the fervor of the runner-up into the newly created state of Pakistan. As a young man, he met Muhammad Ali Jinnah and thoroughly internalized the great man's vision of a Muslim state that would break away from Hindu-dominated India; an Islamic republic with mosque-state separations and protections modeled loosely on Western democracies, where religion would be largely a private matter and rigorous education all but deified. Jinnah's idea was that this balance would allow the growth of a professional class that would become the country's cornerstone of progress. Usman's grandfather embodied that vision. He became a lawyer, involved himself in countless public causes, and began to sell what land the family had built up in the past few centuries to educate his children in the finest regard Pakistan had to offer. Usman's father, Tariq, was the eldest and the first beneficiary, taking his college degree and that blue Toyota on an array of edgy professional missions and rising through Pakistan's competitive bureaucracy to become one of the leading law enforcement officials in the country. Like many bureaucrats, he moved between government houses, even had government servants, but acquired little cash, and so the remainder of the family's land was sold to educate his children at Pakistan's best schools. This meant that Usman's sister, two years his senior, starred at Lahore's finest private academy for girls and won a full scholarship to the London School of Economics. And that Usman, a blazing student at Lahore's exclusive Aitchison School—built a century before by the British to educate the children of India's feudal families—was given a full scholarship to Connecticut College. The problem came down to what wasn't covered: the costly flight from Pakistan to America.

The Way of the World
A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism. Copyright © by Ron Suskind. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

Table of Contents

ACT I Other People's Shoes

1 Welcome Home 17

2 Takeoffs and Landings 43

3 American Dilemmas 63

4 One Way to Heaven 91

ACT II The Armageddon Test

1 People to People 119

2 What We Knew 151

3 Spies, Scones, and the Werewolves of London 185

4 The Trouble with Genies 219

ACT III The Human Solution

1 Everything Connects 257

2 Ezekiel's Sword 279

3 Waiting for the Call 307

4 Truth and Reconciliation 355

Index 403

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  • Posted October 26, 2008

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    As a corporate director I am very concerned about the direction our nation is heading particularly in the areas of trade deficits, loss of manufacturing, lack of immigration reform and our wrong-headed energy policies (using our corn for fuel; how stupid is this). But more than these concerns are the concerns for my family and the American way of life. I can live with an incompetent government to a degree, but now our very lives are at stake due to our lose of direction.

    This book is a must read for everyone that believes our nation and our way of life is important. As the book so adeptly points out, we are on a slippery slope and help does not seem to be on the horizon. Neither Congress nor the executive branch offers any hope. Our current presidential candidates are under-whelming to say the least. Maybe if Palin and Biden were on top of the ticket I would feel better - probably not.

    Please read this important book and pass along the information to others. The information is disturbing but very real and well researched. Just in case you're wondering, I vote Republican.

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    Posted September 8, 2008

    Must Read

    Just a great read.No down time.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 23, 2008

    Great read

    Well written. Reads like a novel. I was impressed with the depth of investigation by the author.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 14, 2008

    Just more of the same

    What 'new' is actually covered here? To those who scream 'lies' and 'impeachment' are you also willing to include Bill Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, et all, who ALL said that Hussein had WMD's and must be stopped before he used them If the president is to be impeached for alleged fabrication about WMD, then so should all during the Clinton administration who agreed. Only then will the 'tit for tat' be complete.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 15, 2008

    Responding to 'More of the Same'

    The problem was that everyone bought into what the administration 'fed' them about the WMDs and their alleged existence. Yes, Clinton, Kerry, etc. all agreed that if Saddam possessed WMDs, he should be stopped. However, it was all lies fabricated to justify the war. This is not 'tit for tat' but rather serious grievances from an adminstration run amok. Suskind's narrative simply adds to the long list of infractions, lies, and misdeeds.

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    Posted August 30, 2008

    Tons of research, lack of application.

    First and foremost, I believe the definition of WMD or 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' needs to be evaluated. A WMD IS NOT a nuclear bomb, it is simply anything used to create enhanced chaos and 'destruction' meant for buildings, cities, towns, soldiers, civilians, etc. This includes nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, nerve weapons, high-end explosives, etc. A SCUD missile IS a weapon of mass destruction. Saying the Bush administrators never found WMD's in Iraq is a misleading LIE. The population tends to oversee the power of the media on the unknowing civilian. If you read this book, make sure you have a fireplace nearby to use as a fire-starter for when you have a book actually worth reading.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 5, 2008

    The 'Smoking Gun'

    Brilliant, investigative reporting by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Suskind. Along with Jane Mayer's equally outstanding 'The Dark Side', shows how the Bush Administration - Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Bolton, Negroponte, and the gang fabricated arguments of WMD to sway the American public to support the Iraq War. Later justifying the War on the basis of the evil of Saddam Hussein. And all the while severely undermining America's reputation in the world by using torture, rendition, and an illegal system of justice to undermine the American Constitution. These criminal actions by the Bush Administration support the case for impeachment of the President and Vice President before they leave office. Congratulations to Suskind and Mayer!

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