From Beirut to Jerusalem

Friedman, Thomas L.

ISBN 10: 0061284254 ISBN 13: 9780061284250

Publisher: Harperaudio, 2006

Synopsis

From Beirut to Jerusalem, winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction, is the startling, intense and thought-provoking account of Thomas L. Friedman's decade of reporting in the strife-ridden Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman has won two Pulitzer Prizes - one for his reporting in Beirut and one for reporting in Jerusalem, the two cities at the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. No two cities have received more headline coverage, nor been more hotly debated, and no reporter has covered them more in depth than Friedman. in his journey from Beirut to Jerusalem, Friedman gives us a panoramic view of both the political and personal conflicts. As a reporter for UPI and The New York Times, he was stationed in Beirut from 1979 to 1984, and in Lebanon from 1984 to 1989. He describes with intense vividness the sometimes horrifying, sometimes wondrous cities, for which, he says, nothing in his life had prepared him. Friedman brings alive his journey from Beirut to Jerusalem through anecdotes, history, analysis and self-examination - and puts all the currents into perspective with inimitable detail, clarity and remarkable insight. This is a much-needed framework for understanding the psychology and politics of the Middle East, and for understanding the future of this unique region.

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Review:

"The most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read."---"The New York Times Book Review
""If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it."---Seymour Hersh

"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."---"The Washington Post Book World"

"A sparkling intellectual guidebook...An engrossing journey not to be missed."---"The Wall Street Journal

""A complex, illuminating vision written with a novelist's eye for the telling detail and a reporter's knack for the revealing quote."---"San Francisco Chronicle

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"Perhaps no other book written for a popular audience has so successfully explained the unexplainable....This book is an annotated roadmap to the past, and a brilliant crystal ball for the future."---"St. Louis Post-Dispatch"

"Fascinating...Friedman has mastered his subj

"The most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read."---"The New York Times Book Review"

"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."---"The Washington Post Book World
""A sparkling intellectual guidebook...An engrossing journey not to be missed."---"The Wall Street Journal"

"A complex, illuminating vision written with a novelist's eye for the telling detail and a reporter's knack for the revealing quote." -"San Francisco Chronicle
""Perhaps no other book written for a popular audience has so successfully explained the unexplainable....This book is an annotated road map to the past, and a brilliant crystal ball for the future."---"St. Louis Post-Dispatch
""Fascinating...Friedman has mastered his subject."---"Time"

The most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read. "The New York Times Book Review"

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. "The Washington Post Book World"

A sparkling intellectual guidebook An engrossing journey not to be missed. "The Wall Street Journal"

A complex, illuminating vision written with a novelist's eye for the telling detail and a reporter's knack for the revealing quote. "San Francisco Chronicle"

Perhaps no other book written for a popular audience has so successfully explained the unexplainable .This book is an annotated road map to the past, and a brilliant crystal ball for the future. "St. Louis Post-Dispatch"

Fascinating...Friedman has mastered his subject. "Time""

The most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read. The New York Times Book Review

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. The Washington Post Book World

A sparkling intellectual guidebook An engrossing journey not to be missed. The Wall Street Journal

A complex, illuminating vision written with a novelist's eye for the telling detail and a reporter's knack for the revealing quote. San Francisco Chronicle

Perhaps no other book written for a popular audience has so successfully explained the unexplainable .This book is an annotated road map to the past, and a brilliant crystal ball for the future. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Fascinating...Friedman has mastered his subject. Time

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-The most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read.- --The New York Times Book Review

-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.- --The Washington Post Book World

-A sparkling intellectual guidebook...An engrossing journey not to be missed.- --The Wall Street Journal

-A complex, illuminating vision written with a novelist's eye for the telling detail and a reporter's knack for the revealing quote.- --San Francisco Chronicle

-Perhaps no other book written for a popular audience has so successfully explained the unexplainable....This book is an annotated road map to the past, and a brilliant crystal ball for the future.- --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

-Fascinating...Friedman has mastered his subject.- --Time

"The most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read." --The New York Times Book Review

"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." --The Washington Post Book World

"A sparkling intellectual guidebook...An engrossing journey not to be missed." --The Wall Street Journal

"A complex, illuminating vision written with a novelist's eye for the telling detail and a reporter's knack for the revealing quote." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Perhaps no other book written for a popular audience has so successfully explained the unexplainable....This book is an annotated road map to the past, and a brilliant crystal ball for the future." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Fascinating...Friedman has mastered his subject." --Time

About the Author:

Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist--the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of five bestselling books, among them From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat.

He was born in Minneapolis in 1953, and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies, attended St. Antony's College, Oxford, on a Marshall Scholarship, and received an M.Phil. degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford.

After three years with United Press International, he joined The New York Times, where he has worked ever since as a reporter, correspondent, bureau chief, and columnist. At the Times, he has won three Pulitzer Prizes: in 1983 for international reporting (from Lebanon), in 1988 for international reporting (from Israel), and in 2002 for his columns after the September 11th attacks.

Friedman's first book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, won the National Book Award in 1989. His second book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (1999), won the Overseas Press Club Award for best book on foreign policy in 2000. In 2002 FSG published a collection of his Pulitzer Prize-winning columns, along with a diary he kept after 9/11, as Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. His fourth book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (2005) became a #1 New York Times bestseller and received the inaugural Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in November 2005. A revised and expanded edition was published in hardcover in 2006 and in 2007. The World Is Flat has sold more than 4 million copies in thirty-seven languages.

In 2008 he brought out Hot, Flat, and Crowded, which was published in a revised edition a year later. His sixth book, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, co-written with Michael Mandelbaum, was published in September 2011.

Thomas L. Friedman lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperaudio
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0061284254
• ISBN 13: 9780061284250
• Binding: Audio CD