A Country of Strangers; Blacks and Whites in America
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition [Stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xii, 607, [3] pages. Notes. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. No dust jacket present. Inscribed by the author in the fep. Inscription reads: To Ari--Hope you fine more to agree with in this than in :Arab + Jew" Best wishes David K. Shipler. An examination of racial bigotry and racial understanding in America today. Shipler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times, provides a nuanced and multilayered portrait of how Americans interact with others of differing backgrounds, and how they are hampered in their understanding by deep-seated and barely conscious attitudes of mistrust and fear. David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author and journalist. He served in the U.S. Navy as an officer on a destroyer, 1964–66. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction in 1987 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. Among his other publications the book entitled, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, also has garnered many awards. Formerly, he was a foreign correspondent of The New York Times and served as one of their bureau chiefs. Since 2010, he has published the electronic journal, The Shipler Report. His book, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America, based on five years of research into stereotyping and interactions across racial lines, was published in 1997. Shipler was one of three authors invited by President Clinton to participate in his first town meeting on race. More