"A riveting and original book that challenges key tenets of American political faith." ?The Baltimore Sun
¡°World on Firedeserves to be widely read. It is a welcome antidote to the recycled mantras of the market-cheering right and the tired rhetoric of the anti-globalization left.¡± ?The American Prospect
¡°Fascinating and disturbing . . . with an authority born of rigorous research.¡± ?BusinessWeek
"Provocative, evocative, nuanced, and highly readable. . . . Amy Chua deserves our gratitude." ?The Washington Post
"Superb. . . . Encourages us to confront the world as it is, and our actual place in it, with a humane and intellectually formidable imagination." ?The New York Observer
¡°This hard-hitting book should be read by everyone who still imagines that free markets can solve all the world¡¯s ills. Chua¡¯s work is provocative, creative, and important; it turns conventional wisdom on its head, and no one interested in globalization can afford to ignore it.¡±?Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America
¡°Provocative. . . . Shocking. . . . It should make Americans think twice about exporting their political culture wholesale without a thought of who dislikes whom.¡±?Seattle Times
¡°[World on Fire] makes for compelling reading and sounds a sobering warning that should be heeded by all supporters and critics of globalization.¡± ?Milwaukee Journal?Sentinel
¡°A profound book, written in plain English, and challenging the very foundations of some glib?and dangerous?assumptions behind American foreign policy. This book should be read in the highest circles of decision-making, as well as by all those who like to consider themselves ¡®thinking people.¡¯ It should provoke some re-thinking?and, for some, really thinking for the first time.¡±?Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution, and author of Ethnic America, Race and Culture
¡°A brilliant, groundbreaking assault on the prevailing wisdom that the American political and economic model is a one-stop solution to the world¡¯s woes.¡± ?Elle
¡°Grim and thoughtful. . . . A clear-headed incisive diagnosis of the many ethnic ills of the globalizing era.¡± ?Mother Jones
¡°Clear and persuasive. . . . Chua is a careful, precise writer.¡± ?Salon
¡°Chua¡¯s book is a lucid, powerfully argued, and important contribution to the debate over the forces and factors shaping the twenty-first century world.¡± ?Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution, and author of The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11
¡°A cogent analysis...convincingly reason[ed].¡±?The Boston Herald
¡°Chua offers a fundamentally new perspective on how to help sustain globalization by spreading its benefits while curbing its most destructive aspects. . . . Compelling.¡± ?The Tampa Tribune
¡°Remarkably illuminating. . . . I cannot think of another work over the past couple of decades that reveals more about the disturbing persistence internationally of racial and ethnic conflicts.¡± ?Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger...: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
¡°Drawing on examples from Burma to Bolivia, Chua paints a nuanced picture of ethnic and national fault lines. . . . [She] fleshes out the idea that globalization is not a magical elixir for developing nations.¡± ?Newsweek
¡°A barrage of examples supports Chua¡¯s thesis, each described with careful consideration of the different circumstances of different nations. . . . [T]old with a dramatic flair. . .¡± ? The Weekly Standard
¡°The greatest tribute to any book is the conviction upon closing it that the senseless finally makes sense. That¡¯s the feeling left by Amy Chua¡¯s World on Fire.¡± ?The Washington Post