In Search of America's Soul: Conversations with Americans about the Presidency of Barack Obama and the Declining power of the American Empire - Paperback
In Search of America's Soul: Conversations with Americans about the Presidency of Barack Obama and the Declining power of the American Empire - Paperback
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by Owen Baptiste (Author)
THERE IS a cartoon on Page 82 of Aftershock, the Wall Street Journal Business bestseller, that shows a couple meeting their investment advisor and saying, "We were wondering if now would be a good time to panic". As we searched for America's Soul it was impossible not to see this worry among Americans even as they tried to hold on to the heroism of the past. But their brashness failed to inspire hope in the triumphant cult of the American Dream that some economists were insisting was over. Most people, said the writers of Aftershock, cannot imagine what the future will be. The book and a lot in the news media are mournful reminders that "things are not going back to how they were before" and they echo the lament of two other prominent American writers that America had fallen behind in the world it invented. Would it come back? The cartoon summed up the dismal state of the American society as it struggles to recover from more than a decade of wars, from a Congress that a majority of Americans do not trust, and from a worsening racial environment dramatized by the killing of the black teenager Trayvon Martin.
Author Biography
OWEN BAPTISTE is a former Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Trinidad Express and Editor-in-Chief of the Trinidad Guardian and Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of the Jamaica Observer, which he launched in 1993. In 1998 he left Trinidad to teach in the People's Republic of China and in 2010 he returned to Trinidad and worked with COSTAATT (College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago) to plan the Ken Gordon School of Journalism. He also published in 2012 "The Seagulls Won't Come Down", the story of his twelve years' teaching in Guangzhou and Beijing. In 2011 and 2012 he undertook tours of the United States to write "In Search of America's Soul." In 2013 The Government of Trinidad and Tobago awarded him the National Media Icon in celebration of the country's 50th Anniversary of Independence.
