Overview

Gwynne Dyer is cheering up. Sure, the past decade has had more than its share of stupid wars, obsessions about terrorism, denial about climate change, rapacious turbo-capitalism, and lies, lies, lies. But signs of progress actually do abound. While the world is far from perfect as we embark on a fresh decade, Dyer believes that the “sense of sliding out of control towards ten different kinds of disaster has gone.” When things go wrong it’s always easy to pin blame—but singling out the forces that lead to positive change can be trickier. In this illuminating collection of columns from the last five years, Gwynne Dyer ferrets out the signs of hope—without overlooking the issues that remain seemingly intractable. Mining the events of recent history, Dyer contextualizes the recent past and anticipates what the future might have in store. This journalist’s beat is global: from Africa to South America, from Europe to the Middle East, and any other region with a political pulse. Acerbic and iconoclastic, Dyer has never been afraid to call ’em like he sees ’em—and we are all the better for his trademark candour and the breadth of his knowledge and expertise. For anyone seeking to understand the larger forces that shape our society and our world, Crawling from the Wreckage makes for necessary reading.

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It is his clear-eyed realism, coupled with an apparently encyclopedic knowledge of international affairs, that makes [Dyer's] commentary so bracing. . . . His analysis is pointed and refreshing. <br> -- Steven W. Beattie, Quill & Quire <br> <br> Piercing and provocative. <br> -- The Vancouver Sun <br> <br> Smart, at times pithy, and always witty . . . Dyer's collection has something for everyone. <br> -- Winnipeg Free Press <br><br><br> From the Hardcover edition.

It is his clear-eyed realism, coupled with an apparently encyclopedic knowledge of international affairs, that makes [Dyer's] commentary so bracing. . . . His analysis is pointed and refreshing. -- Steven W. Beattie, Quill & Quire Piercing and provocative. -- The Vancouver Sun Smart, at times pithy, and always witty . . . Dyer's collection has something for everyone. -- Winnipeg Free Press From the Hardcover edition.

Piercing and provocative. The Vancouver Sun Smart, at times pithy, and always witty...Dyer s collection has something for everyone. Winnipeg Free Press

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GWYNNE DYER has served in the Canadian, British and American navies. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history from the University of London, has taught at Sandhurst and served on the Board of Governors of Canada's Royal Military College. Dyer writes a syndicated column that appears in more than 175 newspapers around the world. In 2010, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He lives in England with his wife and children.

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