Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times, drew on his ten years in the Middle East to write a book that The Wall Street Journal called "a sparkling intellectual guidebook... an engrossing journey not to be missed." Now with a new chapter that brings the ever-changing history of the conflict in the Middle East up to date, this seminal historical work reaffirms both its timeliness and its timelessness.
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"A complex, illuminating vision written with a novelist's eye for the telling detail and reporter's knack for the revealing quote" San Francisco Chronicle
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"If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." Seymour Hersh
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"From Beirut To Jerusalem is the most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read." New York Times Book Review.
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"This is a book that must be read by all who are concerned about the present and future of a part of our world to which Western civilization has always been, and will continue to be, vitally connected." Chaim Potok, The Washington Post Book World