From Beirut to Jerusalem

Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1989. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair Condition/Good. the bottom edge of the front board has lost colour from moisture contact, and there is transferred to the underside of the front panel of the dustjacket. The 1st 5 leaves of the book also showed traces of colour transfer. Gift annotation at the top of the 1st page, otherwise there is no damage and the book is free of annotation. His book, he writes, "is about a young man from Minnesota who goes to Beirut and confronts the world for which nothing in his life has prepared him, a student of Middle East politics who discovers that the region bears little resemblance to the logical and antiseptic descriptions he founded most of his textbooks. It is about a jury raised on all the myths about Israel who discovers that it isn't the summer camp of his youth but an audacious and still unresolved experiment to get Jews to live together in the midst of the Arab world. Lastly, it is a book about the people of Beirut and Jerusalem themselves, who, I discovered, were going through remarkably similar identity crisis. Each was caught in a struggle between the new ideas, new relationships, the new nations they were trying to build for the future, and the ancient memories, ancient passions, and ancient feuds are kept dragging them back into the past" – dustjacket blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XIV, 525 pages, including index.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Politics & Government; History. ISBN: 0374158940. ISBN/EAN: 9780374158941. Inventory No: 0241330. . 9780374158941