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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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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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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 HershRating Out Of Books From Beirut to Jerusalem
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To my surprise, this book which I randomly chose as a guide to Middle East before my travels there, became my best book of 2018 (and first 11 days of 2019).Jewish born youngster from the US becomes obsessed with Middle East and the Arab world, and his journey takes him to the midst of Lebanese War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This fascinating and very well written book tought me a lot about the region & the world of the 1980s without me even realising that - the way the author mixesit'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.
This book is older than I am.But, I had read it while I was in Lebanon - and while dated, time hasn't changed the underlying commentary in the book.What would normally spark quite a heated debate is broken down and approached from a historical/empirical view of the matter that highlights the different dynamics of both Lebanon and Israel.It's well-written, it's informative and got my 24-year old adolescent brain actually thinking about a topic I've been oblivious to.
you've nailed it. This was a fantastic book. Everything he has done since has been unoriginal and lacking in any insight
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.
More or less agree with Edward Said (1989):"On the face of it, From Beirut to Jerusalem is a reporters journal of a decade in the Middle East spent first as UPI correspondent for a couple of years, then as New York Times bureau chief in two major centers. Between 1979 and 1984 Friedman was stationed in Beirut where he covered the civil war, the Israeli invasion of 1982, and the countrys tragic dissolution thereafter. He then moved to Jerusalem (traveling rather ostentatiously across the
If you're sick and tired of what a pedantic wind-bag Thomas Friedman has become since his stupid 'lexus & olive-tree' epiphany, take a trip back to when he was less pedantic, less wind-baggish, and could make a point without the use of a dozen unnecessary, self-aggrandizing anecdotes.From Beirut to Jerusalem is entertaining, well-written, poignant, and a great primer to middle-eastern/Israeli-Palestinian affairs. The Beirut section of the book is a bit better than the Jerusalem section (I
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