Lengthened Shadows
Subtitle: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-First Century
Contributors: Roger Kimball (Editor); Hilton Kramer (Editor)
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781594030543
Subjects: American studies; Social Science; Anthropology - Cultural; Sociology; USA; Essays; United States - 21st Century; 21st century; 1970-; Civilization; United States
First sentence: ON SEPTEMBER 2, 1898 at Omdurman on the banks of the Nile just outside of Khartoum, an Anglo-Egyptian army under the command of General Herbert Horatio Kitchener faced a Sudanese army led by the Khalifa, the local leader of the fundamentalist Wahabbist sect of Islam.