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Don't Tread on Me: Anti-Americanism Abroad (Book/ Paperback)

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Don't Tread on Me is Carol Gould's journey through the astonishing world of British and European anti-Americanism. From Yanks being spat on, to other acts, the level of US-bashing has evolved into something more than just Bush-hatred. Wrapped in the anti-American fever sweeping Europe and Britain is fierce resentment of the 'Zionist lobby' in the United States and a deep loathing of America's support for Israel.

About the Author(s)

Carol Gould was born in Philadelphia USA in 1953 and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Temple University. She went to Britain in 1976 to study documentary film history with Edgar Anstey. She continued postgraduate research at University of Kent on the history of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, Stratford East. From 1981 to 1991 she was Commissioning Editor for Drama at Anglia Television, working on 'Cause Celebre' by Terence Rattigan; thirty-six hours of PD James adaptations; 'The Care of Time' by Eric Ambler; 'Anything More Would be Greedy' by Malcolm Bradbury and other drama series. Some of the Anglia productions were aired on PBS in the USA. In 1996 she produced a documentary that premiered at the 1997 Berlin Festival, 'Long Night's Journey into Day,' about the year after the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yitzhak Rabin. In the past fifteen years Carol has produced documentaries about the Benjamin Franklin House, Jewish Evacuees, the three Abrahamic faiths, Black GIs in wartime Britain, the Bevin Boys and mixed-race GI babies. In 2000 the Second Intifadah and the burgeoning hostility in Europe and Britain to Americans and Israel moved Carol to establish her own political magazine, Current Viewpoint. She had become increasingly aware of anger directed at her in social and professional milieux. Her book, 'Don't Tread on Me; anti-Americanism Abroad' was published by Social Affairs Unit in 2009 and by Encounter Books in the USA.