The Water Above
by david holdridgePublish: Dec 20, 2023Biographies & MemoirsBook Overview
This is a story, in the main, about an American family, exiled from the market place in Connecticut and dropped into Lebanon--one of the most violent civil wars of the 20th century. A child was born, two evacuations were effected, several detentions, a kidnapping as well as occasional self inflicted abuse by the protagonists. But this story is more ambitious than that; it is also an abiding eye on the great presumption of an 'exceptional' America to pervade the Middle East with its influence and the evident failures of such hopes. ‘The Water Above’ heralds the new era before America as well as what values Americans will carry forth as illustrated by one such foot soldier of western civilization.Eminently modern but equally eminently American as Tocqueville's protagonist who in his soul, remains 'delinked, free and tragic'.
