^#smrgSAHAF The Next Century -

It is our not very secret secret that the American Century is over, writes veteran; Journalist David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Best and the Brightest, The Reckoning, and Summer of '49. In The Next Century Halberstam takes a moment to ruminate on the lessons of those three books and to consider the recent past, the astonishing events now taking place in the world, and the possible shape of the twenty-first century.

Drawing upon his experience as a New York Times reporter in Eastern Europe and recent visits back there, Halberstam looks at the startling changes reshaping the Soviet Union and its former satellites. He shows us the problems faced by these nations after their first heady rush of freedom: divisions caused by nationality, religion, and class, and worst of all, the complete absence of economic foundations. The important question is: Will the future bring chaos or a new period of economic dynamism to these countries? (Şömizden)