The Middle East Peace Process: Vision Versus Reality - Hardcover

Ginat, Joseph; Perkins, Edward J.; Corr, Edwin G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806135220 ISBN 13: 9780806135229

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003

Synopsis

James A. Michener was one of the most beloved storytellers of our time, captivating readers with sweeping historical plots that educated and entertained. In this first full-length biography of the private as well as the public Michener, Stephen J. May reveals how an aspiring writer became a best-selling novelist. It is the only book to draw on Michener’s complete papers as well as interviews with his friends and associates. The result conveys much about Michener never before revealed in print.May follows the young Michener from an impoverished Pennsylvania childhood to the wartime Pacific, where he found inspiration for Tales of the South Pacific, a book that led to a string of best sellers, including The Source, Centennial, Chesapeake, and The Covenant. May provides insights into Michener’s personal life: his three marriages, his unique working methods, and his social and political views. He also reveals the author’s hypersensitivity to criticism, his egotism, and his failure on some occasions to acknowledge the contributions of his assistants.Examining Michener’s body of writing in its biographical and cultural contexts, May describes the creation of each novel and assesses the book’s strengths and shortcomings. His close readings underscore Michener’s innovativeness in presenting mountains of historical and cultural research in an engaging literary form.This probing biography establishes Michener’s place in twentieth-century letters as it offers an unprecedented view of the man behind the typewriter.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph Ginat is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Middle East societies and Deputy Director of the Center for Peace Studies, International Programs Center, University of Oklahoma.


Edward J. Perkins, now retired as a U.S. Ambassador, is William J. Crowe Professor of Geopolitics and Executive Director of the International Programs Center at the University of Oklahoma.

Edwin G. Corr, a former U.S. Ambassador and former Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, is Associate Director of the International Program Center.|His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal chairs a wide number of international and Jordanian committees and organizations.|A Rhodes Scholar, David Boren is President of the University of Oklahoma. A former governor of Oklahoma, he served as U.S. Senator from Oklahoma from 1979 to 1994 and chaired the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1987 to 1993.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806135220
• ISBN 13: 9780806135229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464