Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
Published on 15. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-4165-4441-8 (ISBN)
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Maps; Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
397 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4165-4441-8 (9781416544418)
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04/2010
Scribner Book Company
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Person
Kai Bird is an acclaimed biographer and journalist. With Martin J. Sherwin, he won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which was the inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award–winning Best Picture, Oppenheimer. Bird is Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for History and is the recipient of numerous fellowships. His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He is an elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians.