Just for the record:
- A nice review / podcast / interview by Paul Bertorelli of AVweb.
- A nice item in the New Yorker, albeit behind a paywall.
- A nice review by Benjamin Shobert in Asia Times.
- A nice item by Fareed Zakaria in his GPS blog.
- A nice item in El Mercurio, from Chile, for which I don't have a link but I have a screen shot, below.
Seriously, I am very grateful for the depth of all of these items. When you're cranking out a book like this, you don't dare expect or imagine that anyone will take seriously the case you try to make. I am appreciate the fact that these people did.
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James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States and once worked as President Carter's chief speechwriter. He and his wife, Deborah Fallows, are the authors of the new book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America, which has been a New York Times best-seller and is the basis of a forthcoming HBO documentary.