Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad

"How the vulgarization of American popular culture has distorted the image of the United States for millions of people around the world."-Francis Fukuyama,New York Times bestselling author

What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods-but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from ill-conceived foreign policy to the financial crisis and the sophisticated propaganda of mod...