Menace in Europe, Claire Berlinski
Menace in Europe, Claire Berlinski
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Menace in Europe
Why the Continents Crisis is Americas, Too

Author: Claire Berlinski

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, History


Synopsis

We think of Europe as the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. But lately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes and demonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical Islamic cells in every city, and ghettos so hopeless and violent even the police wont enter them. Journalist Claire Berlinski reveals how the death of religious faith has created a hopeless, morally unmoored Europe that clings to dangerous ideologies, why the notion of a united Europe is a fantasy, and what it all means for the United States.

About Claire Berlinski

Claire Berlinski is the author of Loose Lips and the nonfiction journalistic exposé Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s, Too. Born in California, she received her undergraduate degree in modern history and her doctorate in international relations from Balliol College at Oxford University. Like the heroine of Lion Eyes, she divides her time between Paris and Istanbul, where she lives with photojournalist David Gross and a menagerie of adopted stray animals.


Reviews

I simply could not continue with this book after the first chapter, which was all that was necessary for it to become apparent that Miss Berlinski's inaugural work of non-fiction was littered with opinion and bias. This is disappointing, since at least some of what she had to say was potentially inf......more

Goodreads review by Pam

This book attempts to answer the questions 'Who are these young Islamist radicals, and why is Europe breeding so many of them?" and "Why is Europe incapable of seeing and solving its own problems?". She discusses their problems through examination of the anti-American lyrics of the German rock group......more

Goodreads review by Chris

This was great for all people who think that America has issues. Europe has a lot of issues they are not addressing. The sheer number of the non-integrated, Muslim population is as troubling or more more so than China's 20M unmarried, single men. She lays out a lot of stories that are little slow an......more

Goodreads review by Joel

Clear concise, well research in most areas. This is a must read for anyone considered about international religious issues!......more