Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
Published on 20. April 2010
448 pages
978-1-4391-7160-8 (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
New York
United States
File size
2,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4391-7160-8 (9781439171608)
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Persons
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.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author's Note on Memoir and History
- Maps of the Middle East
- Preface
- Book I: Arabs
- 1 Jerusalem
- 2 On the Road to Suez
- 3 The Magic Kingdom
- 4 Arabia: "Progress Without Change"
- Book II: Defeating Arab Modernity
- 5 Cairo and Nasser's Egypt, 1965-1967
- 6 "A Man Without a Country," 1967-1970
- 7 Black September, 1970
- Book III: Jews, Israelis and the Shoah
- 8 The Night of Broken Glass
- 9 The Hebrew Republic
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Sources
- Notes
- Index
- Foot Note
- Chapter 1: Footnote
- Chapter 3: Footnote
- Chapter 4: Footnote
- Chapter 5: Footnote
- Chapter 6: Footnote
- Chapter 7: Footnote
- Chapter 8: Footnote
- Chapter 9: Footnote
