{"id":10400,"date":"2021-05-17T08:34:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T08:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=10400"},"modified":"2022-04-05T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:14:15","slug":"wrestling-with-shadows-a-novel-by-emanuel-pastreich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2021\/05\/17\/wrestling-with-shadows-a-novel-by-emanuel-pastreich\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wrestling with Shadows&#8221; (March, 2022 edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wrestling with Shadows (March, 2022 edition) <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Emanuel Pastreich, Author <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The novel &#8220;Wrestling with Shadows&#8221; relates the mysterious, and at times outlandish, adventures of a na\u00efve professor who was caught up in a whirlwind of mysterious events resulting from his proposal for cooperation between the United States and Asia. This maelstrom carried him deep into the matrix, beyond anything he had imagined possible, and ultimately pushed him out of his job, and finally, out of his country.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Wrestling with Shadows&#8221; limns the political chaos after the 2000 presidential election in the United States and hints at the desperate battle of a handful Americans, in government and outside, who tried to  keep the nation from collapsing into anomy. Several of events described in this novel, although well known to insiders, have never been treated in print anywhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/wrestling-with-shadows_ed919ceca780_a5_front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"892\" height=\"1272\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/wrestling-with-shadows_ed919ceca780_a5_front.jpg?w=718\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/wrestling-with-shadows_ed919ceca780_a5_front.jpg 892w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/wrestling-with-shadows_ed919ceca780_a5_front-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/wrestling-with-shadows_ed919ceca780_a5_front-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/wrestling-with-shadows_ed919ceca780_a5_front-768x1095.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download novel <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/wrestling-with-shadows-2022.02.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of wrestling-with-shadows-2022.02..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-2cd52932-53e3-4995-bd36-6dfbd797dcf4\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/wrestling-with-shadows-2022.02.pdf\">wrestling-with-shadows-2022.02<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/wrestling-with-shadows-2022.02.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2cd52932-53e3-4995-bd36-6dfbd797dcf4\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling with Shadows (March, 2022 edition) Emanuel Pastreich, Author The novel &#8220;Wrestling with Shadows&#8221; relates the mysterious, and at times outlandish, adventures of a na\u00efve professor who was caught up in a whirlwind of mysterious events resulting from his proposal for cooperation between the United States and Asia. 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