Random House Limited, Toronto, published Thomas L. Friedman's Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in an Age of Terrorism in the United States by Anchor Books, a division or Random House Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada. Originally edited and published by Farrar, Giroux, LCC, New York, in 2002; this book contains 395 pages.

Friedman, a foreign affairs news columnist for the New York Times Magazine was greatly influenced to pursue his career by his high school journalism teacher, Hattie M. Steinberg. Although she was quite strict, she was also his favorite teacher as she pounded the fundamentals into her students and inspired him to write his first article, a piece about Ariel Sharon, a Six-Day War hero who was giving a lecture at a local University. When he entered college another teacher had an impact on his writing, Professor Albert Hourani, a scholar of Middle Eastern History. He continued...