Acclaimed journalist Eric Margolis outlines the current hostilities between the Western and Muslim worlds and offers an honest and provocative blue print for resolution. A comprehensive and clearly written perspective on a many times overly simplified issue; Margolis provides an essential addition to studies on American-Islamic relations.

American Raj also discusses such topics as:

* Understanding why there is so much anger against the west in the Muslim world
* Why al Qaeda is so popular and if it can be defeated
* How each conflict in the Muslim world feeds on the others
* How oil drives Western policy in the Muslim world.

FINALIST IN 2009 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NON FICTION