Green Brook Country Club Book Review Presents "America In Retreat" by Bret Stephens

NORTH CALDWELL, NJ - The public is invited to Green Brook Country Club’s Book Review of ”America in Retreat” presented by Pulitzer Prize Winning/New York Times Best Selling Author Bret Stephens on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 11:30 AM. The event includes a Sumptuous Luncheon, Author Presentation, Greet & Meet Author, Question & Answer Period, Personalized Book Signing and Valet Parking. (If you purchase a book at the event, you will be invited to a private group chat with author after the program from 2:30pm – 3:00pm. Tea, Coffee & Cake will be served.)

In a brilliant book, “America in Retreat,” Bret Stephens identifies a profound crisis on the global horizon. As Americans seek to withdraw from the world to tend to domestic problems, America’s adversaries spy opportunity. Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to restore the glory of the czarist empire go effectively unchecked, as do China’s attempts to expand its maritime claims in the South China Sea, as do Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear capabilities. Civil war in Syria displaces millions throughout the Middle East while turbo charging the forces of radical Islam. Long-time allies such as Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, doubting the credibility of American security guarantees, are tempted to freelance their foreign policy, irrespective of U.S. interests.

Bret Stephens writes “Global View,” the Wall Street Journal’s foreign-affairs column, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2013. He is the paper’s deputy editorial page editor, responsible for the international opinion pages of the Journal, and a member of the paper’s editorial board. He is also a regular panelist on the Journal Editorial Report, a weekly political talk show broadcast on Fox News Channel. Mr. Stephens joined the Journal in 1998 as an op-ed editor and moved to Brussels the following year, where he wrote editorials and edited a column on the European Union. He left Dow Jones in January 2002 to become editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, a position he assumed at age 28. Mr. Stephens returned to the Journal in late 2004 and has reported stories from around the globe. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, he is the winner of a South Asian Journalists Association award for his writing on the Kashmir earthquake (2006), the Breindel Prize for excellence in opinion journalism (2008), the Bastiat Prize for his columns on economic subjects (2010) and the University of Chicago’s Alumni Board of Governors Professional Achievement Award (2014). In 2005 he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

~ Bret Stephen’s books will be available to purchase and have signed at this Book Review Event ~

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT GO TO http://www.greenbrookcc.org/index.cfm?ID=151 AND CLICK ON THE DATE OF THE EVENT FOR THE REGISTRATION FORM.

For further information, call 973-228-1800 x234 or email Marlene Cohen, Book Club Chair at mmlc2926@aol.com.