Jean-Paul Marthoz has covered the world, and in particular the Americas, for 20 years before joining HRW, between 1996 and 2005, as European press director. Now back in journalism and academia he has just published a book that blends his own itinerary with the history of the US.
Starting with his parents’s memories of the December 1944 Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne and closing with Barack Obama’s first victories in the 2008 primaries the author covers 60 years of US history. Raised in a family that equated the US with the liberation of 1945 and the struggle for freedom he puts to the test America’s exceptionalism and proclaimed commitment to an ethical foreign policy.
Freedom is the keyword of this 410-page essay, full of testimonies and readings, that looks at the US engagement with the world. While the author records without fear no favour US complicities with Latin American dictators or Middle eastern satraps, he celebrates the great contribution of US activists, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, to the cause of progressive politics and the inspiration they have provided to the rest of the world.
Editions GRIP/Enjeux internationaux et locaux, Brussels
www.grip.org
www.enjeux-internationaux.org
Starting with his parents’s memories of the December 1944 Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne and closing with Barack Obama’s first victories in the 2008 primaries the author covers 60 years of US history. Raised in a family that equated the US with the liberation of 1945 and the struggle for freedom he puts to the test America’s exceptionalism and proclaimed commitment to an ethical foreign policy.
Freedom is the keyword of this 410-page essay, full of testimonies and readings, that looks at the US engagement with the world. While the author records without fear no favour US complicities with Latin American dictators or Middle eastern satraps, he celebrates the great contribution of US activists, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, to the cause of progressive politics and the inspiration they have provided to the rest of the world.
Editions GRIP/Enjeux internationaux et locaux, Brussels
www.grip.org
www.enjeux-internationaux.org
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