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| Original Title: | From Beirut To Jerusalem |
| ISBN: | 0385413726 (ISBN13: 9780385413725) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Nonfiction (1989), ASJA Outstanding Book Award (1990), Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism (1990), Cornelius Ryan Award (1989) |
Thomas L. Friedman
Paperback | Pages: 541 pages Rating: 4.12 | 9974 Users | 771 Reviews
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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. "If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." -- Seymour Hersh
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| Title | : | From Beirut to Jerusalem |
| Author | : | Thomas L. Friedman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 541 pages |
| Published | : | July 15th 1990 by Anchor Books (first published June 1989) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Politics. Cultural. Israel |
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Ratings: 4.12 From 9974 Users | 771 ReviewsAssess Appertaining To Books From Beirut to Jerusalem
Quite insightful. Best part that Friedman offers practically implementable options for initiating a process that in the long run ensures never-ending peace in the Middle East. I wish such a solution makes way into Indo-Pakistan dispute as well.This was required reading for one of my undergrad poli sci classes, and it's very good. Anyone who's interested in learning more about the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict should read it.
Could not have said it better!
It was an Israeli friend who told me that if I wanted to understand today's Middle East, I should read this book. The author is well-qualified as a guide to the regions complexities. Friedman, who is Jewish and studied Hebrew as a child, as a teen spent a vacation in an Israeli Kibbutz. He started studying Arabic as well, and fell in love with Egypt after a two-week visit on his way to a semester at Hebrew University. Less than two years later he was taking Arabic courses at the American
it's easy to laugh at friedman: 'he's an intellectual lightweight', 'he's a diehard optimist', blahblahblah... put simply: this is always my first recommendation for anyone curious to read about the middle east. that's because it's fucking great. should be required reading.
I used to follow and read Thomas Friedmans columns regularly. Thought he was a pretty interesting guy even if I didnt subscribe to his politics. But he became a bloated, pompous caricature of a journalist as he turned out junk like The World is Flat, The Sky is Blue, The Sea is Salty (well maybe the last two arent real but he has a bunch of similar-sounding books). I decided to go back to his first book From Beirut to Jerusalem to see how he got his start. I figured it would be a less slanted,
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