Financial Times: "Steven Hill is a lucid and engaging writer. He makes you sit up and think. He is surely right in saying that Europe’s prosperous, peaceful and democratic social market economy looks attractive when contrasted with the unbalanced, excessively deregulated US model or with China's politically repressive capitalism.” Read More.

The Economist: “In a new book, Steven Hill extols the European social contract for better government services. Life in Europe is more secure, he argues, and therefore more agreeable.”

Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker: “Like a reverse Alexis de Tocqueville, Steven Hill dauntlessly explores a society largely unknown to his compatriots back home.” Read More.

Foreign Affairs: “Europe’s Promise is a timely and provocative book . . . the “social capitalist” policies of European countries represent best practices in handling most of the challenges modern democracies face today."

Internationale Politik (Germany): "Europe's Promise" by Steven Hill…Explosive power, wherever you look...a dazzling Opus… Read More.

Reuters International: “Europe’s Promise marshals an impressive army of facts and comparative statistics...Shows that neither America’s trickle-down, Wall Street-driven capitalism nor China’s state capitalism hold the keys to the future."

Llewellyn King, PBS' White House Chronicle: "Steven Hill is an extraordinarily gifted writer... Europe's Promise is a substantial piece of work.” Read More.

Vienna Review of Books: “There are vital lessons in Europe’s Promise from which America could benefit. . . . may galvanize Americans to look in the mirror and make some changes."

Ralph Nader: "Europe's Promise should startle, inform, and galvanize Americans....”

Mark Leonard, European Council on Foreign Relations: “Hill’s book is an elegant manifesto for a new politics of interdependence.”

Providence Journal: “An engrossing book...Hill has a gift for capturing cogent themes in a single image.”

Oakland Tribune: “An important new book...”

Firedoglake Book Salon: “Europe’s Promise will be an eye opening read for many Americans."

EUSA Review: "Hill's book is very well written, in an engaging journalistic style. The book makes a great contribution to European studies -- communicating in one compelling volume so much of what is distinctive and appealing about 'The European Way.'"

America: The National Catholic Weekly: “Breezily written and well-documented . . . Hill ably demolishes a series of common myths concerning differences between Europe and the United States.” Read More.

The Guardian: Steven Hill has just published a book, Europe's Promise, which argues that “the European way is the best hope in an insecure age.”

Prof Jacob Hacker, Yale Univ: “What can the United States learn from Europe? If you believe what’s said in Washington, the answer is ‘not much’. If you read Steven Hill’s intelligent, broad-ranging, and deeply researched book, you’ll find the correct answer is ‘a great deal'.”

Parag Khanna, New America Foundation: “Steven Hill ends the transatlantic debate over which economic and political system is superior: Europe wins. While America and China fight for oil and minerals, Europe already achieves more with less. Indeed, the path to the American Dream is the European Way.”

Reuters International: “U.S. militarism has long been a core part of the American Way,” writes Steven Hill in a just-published book, Europe’s Promise. Read More.

Choice: "In this spirit of de Toquevillian wisdom, Hill offers the reader a comprehensive analysis of Europe aimed at engaging the American public in a dialogue about the transformative achievements of the old continent. A very-well written discussion, substantiated by a wealth of reference material and dotted with personal anecdotes.”
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