Guy Sorman

La société bourgeoise, blanche et occidentale, privée de ses ennemis traditionnels à gauche et à l'Est, s'en invente de nouveaux: les immigrés de l'extérieur, les drogués de l'intérieur. Sommes-nous assiégés par ces nouveaux barbares qui vont nous imposer leurs moeurs? La menace est-elle réelle ou imaginaire? Qui sont les immigrés et quelles sont les politiques de l'immigration? Qui sont les drogués, et la guerre menée contre eux est-elle nécessaire pour sauver l'ordre établi? Loin des fantasmes et des joutes idéologiques, la réponse ici est dans l'enquête. Guy Sorman nous mène de Paris à Washington et Pékin, d'Amsterdam à Tokyo, de Berlin à Liverpool, Rabat et Los Angeles, partout où les " nouveaux barbares " affrontent les Etats bourgeois. Dans la ligne de La Solution libérale et de La Nouvelle Richesse des nations, l'auteur préconise des solutions concrètes, fondées sur le respect des différences et la tolérance.

En attendant les barbares

Before the totalitarian reign of Mao Zedong and his immediate successors, never in human history had an entire nation been under such intense surveillance. The Chinese not only had to speak alike; they had to think alike. Traveling to China regularly since 1967, and spending all of 2005 and 2006 there, Guy Sorman saw it all, and in this jaw-dropping book, he documents the horrifying stories of China through the 21st century. He shows how the Party's primary concern is not improving the lives of the downtrodden; it seeks power more than it seeks social development. It expends extraordinary energy in suppressing Chinese freedoms-the media operate under suffocating censorship, and political opposition can result in expulsion or prison-even as it tries to seduce the West, which has conferred greater legitimacy on it than do the Chinese themselves.

The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century

Empire of Lies

El autor pasó el año del Gallo en China, escuchando a los rebeldes en busca de libertad. Ha podido restituirles la palabra después de un prolongado viaje por pueblos y provincias ajenos al imaginario habitual.

China. El imperio de las mentiras

Esperando a los bárbaros

In 2005, The Woman at the Washington Zoo was published to major critical acclaim. The late Marjorie Williams possessed ''a special voice, one capable not just of canny political observations but of tenderness and bracing intimacy, '' observed the New York Times Book Review. Now, in a collection of profiles with the richness of short fiction, Williams limns the personalities that dominated politics and the media during the final years of the twentieth century. In these pages, Clark Clifford grieves ''in his laborious baritone'' a bank scandal's blow to his re-pu-taaaaaay-shun. Lee Atwater likens himself to Ulysses and pleads, ''Tah me to the mast!'' Patricia Duff sheds ''precipitous tears'' over her divorce from Ronald Perelman, resembling afterwards ''a garden refreshed by spring rain.'' Reputation illuminates our recent past through expertly drawn portraits of powerful - and messily human - figures.

Guy Sorman

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