Notes on Them and Us: From the Mayflower to Obama: The British, the Americans and the Essential Relationship

by Justin Webb

Britain and America have a new word to describe their relationship: essential replaced special as the term used during Barack ObamaOCOs state visit to Britain. Justin Webb would prefer all adjectives to be abandoned in an effort to tell the real story. Notes on Them & Us is a wry account of the transatlantic friendship as it actually exists today ? how Americans see us, how we Brits see them ? and Webb, presenter on Radio 4OCOs Today programme and formerly the BBCOCOs North American editor for eight years, is perfectly placed to comment. An amusing, myth-breaking, unflinchingly honest read, this is not an attack on either the English or the Americans. Webb concludes that there is a fault line in the long-standing marriage between these two great nations, a cultural divide that separates us. And he argues that recognising this divide, even celebrating it, is the key to a rich future collaboration."

Genres: Politics, Nonfiction, History

180 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2011

Reviews

[Sian · Rating 3 out of 5]

More Brit non-fiction. Lent from Pell, very very funny