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In 2007, as a 29-year-old journalist, Hansen won a fellowship to Turkey. Eight years later she published this combination memoir–reports from the Middle East–in depth description of Turkish politics. In combination Hansen delivers a deeply insightful description of what America looks like to foreigners in the 21st century. Premise number one is that most of the world has to pay attention to America while Americans, on the whole, know nothing at all about how they have manipulated the politics, economies, and lives of Turks, Egyptians, Afghans, Iraqis, and Iranians (countries she sends reports from) to name just a few of...