I’d really like to get my hands on a copy of
The Armchair Diplomat on Europe,
which pegs itself as The Ultimate Slackers’ Guide to Our Continental Cousins. As I
started digging around for more info, I discovered that this is the first of two books being released this year by
travel writer Melissa Rossi. The UK book about Europe (complete with profiles of 25 EU nations) was released in late
August. A related US title,
What Every American Should Know about Who’s Really Running the World, will hit US bookstores in December.
This is a follow-up to Rossi’s 2003 release, What Every American
Should Know about the Rest of the World.
The Gadling group is more active that slacker, I know, but we all have to be lazy
sometimes. I wouldn’t mind relaxing on the couch with these books to get Rossi’s skinny on what she suggests Americans
and Brits should be aware of regarding history, culture and politics before heading out into this big bad world of
ours. Want to know more? Follow along at Rossi’s
blog, poke around on the Armchair Diplomat website
and read this Rolf Potts interview with the author.