Garth Brooks: How a Ten-Gallon Hat Became Global Soft-Power Ammunition
Garth Brooks and the Global Soft-Power Hat Trick By the Foreign Correspondent Who Once Saw a Kyrgyz Wedding DJ Spin “Friends in Low Places” at 3 a.m., Straight-Faced In the grand, teetering circus of American cultural imperialism, Garth Brooks is the unassuming juggler who managed to turn a ten-gallon Stetson into planetary headgear. From the…