Häftad, Engelska, 1998
From Beirut to Jerusalem
One Man’s Middle Eastern Odyssey
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Beskrivning
A Second Edition of Thomas Friedman’s stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award.‘If you’re only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it.’ Seymour HershIn this lucid, incisive and memorable book, acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, Friedman reaches deeper into the traumatic and complex recent history of the conflicts in the Middle East than any previous writer.For this new edition, Friedman has added a further two chapters that bring the book up to 1995 and the unfolding – and stalling – of the Middle Eastern peace process.From Beirut to Jerusalem is wonderully shrewd, surprisingly funny and indispensable to anyone seeking a fuller understanding of the political causes and psychological effects of the seemingly endless strife which besets this embattled region.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 1998-10-19
- Mått: 129 x 198 x 38 mm
- Vikt: 430 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 608
- Upplaga: 2
- Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN: 9780006530701
- Miljömärkning: Produced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.
- Utmärkelser: Winner of United States National Book Awards: Nonfiction 1989
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Thomas Friedman was born in Minneapolis in 1943. He completed his post-graduate Middle Eastern Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford, before becoming a journalist. From 1979 to 1984, he became the New York Times’ Beirut bureau chief, moving south to Jerusalem in 1984 to become bureau chief there. In January 1989 he became the New York Times’ chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington. Friedman has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from the Middle East.
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‘Jubilantly intelligent – a dashing hybrid of autobiography and journalism… a lifeline to the sane, a beacon to the hopeful.’Michael Coren, The Times
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