{"product_id":"my-promised-land-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-israel","title":"My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"This book will sweep you up in its narrative force and not let go of you until it is done. [Shavit's] accomplishment is so unlikely, so total . . . that it makes you believe anything is possible, even, God help us, peace in the Middle East.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Simon Schama, \u003ci\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] must-read book . . . Shavit celebrates the Zionist man-made miracle--from its start-ups to its gay bars--while remaining affectionate, critical, realistic and morally anchored. . . . His book is a real contribution to changing the conversation about Israel and building a healthier relationship with it. Before their next ninety-minute phone call, both Barack and Bibi should read it.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Thomas L. Friedman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] important and powerful book . . . [Shavit] has an undoctrinaire mind. He comes not to praise or to blame, though along the way he does both, with erudition and with eloquence; he comes instead to observe and to reflect. This is the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read. It is a Zionist book unblinkered by Zionism. It is about the entirety of the Israeli experience. Shavit is immersed in all of the history of his country. While some of it offends him, none of it is alien to him. . . . The author of \n\u003ci\u003eMy Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a dreamer with an addiction to reality. He holds out for affirmation without illusion. Shavit's book is an extended test of his own capacity to maintain his principles in full view of the brutality that surrounds them.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Leon Wieseltier, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Spellbinding . . . In this divided, fought-over shard of land splintered from the Middle East barely seventy years ago, Mr. Shavit's prophetic voice carries lessons that all sides need to hear.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most nuanced and challenging books written on Israel in years . . . [The] book's real power: On an issue so prone to polemic, Mr. Shavit offers candor.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A tour de force.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Jewish Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reads like a love story and a thriller at once.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] searingly honest, descriptively lush, painful and riveting story of the creation of Zionism in Israel and [Shavit's] own personal voyage.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Shavit is a master storyteller. [His] retelling of history jars us out of our familiar retrospections, reminds us (and we do need reminders) that there are historical reasons why Israel is a country on the edge. . . . Required reading for both the left and the right.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"The most extraordinary book that I've read on [Israel] since Amos Elon's book called \n\u003ci\u003eThe Israelis, \u003c\/i\u003eand that was published in the late sixties.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--David Remnick, on \u003ci\u003eCharlie Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eMy Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e is an Israeli book like no other. Not since Amos Elon's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Israelis, \u003c\/i\u003e Amos Oz's \n\u003ci\u003eIn the Land of Israel, \u003c\/i\u003e and Thomas Friedman's \n\u003ci\u003eFrom Beirut to Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e has there been such a powerful and comprehensive book written about the Jewish State and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ari Shavit is one of Israel's leading columnists and writers, and the story he tells describes with great empathy the Palestinian tragedy and the century-long struggle between Jews and Arabs over the Holy Land. While Shavit is being brutally honest regarding the Zionist enterprise, he is also insightful, sensitive, and attentive to the dramatic life-stories of his fascinating heroes and heroines. The result is a unique nonfiction book that has the qualities of fine literature. It brings to life epic history without being a conventional history book. It deepens contemporary political understanding without being a one-sided political polemic. It is painful and provocative, yet colorful, emotional, life-loving, and inspiring. \n\u003ci\u003eMy Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e is the ultimate personal odyssey of a humanist exploring the startling biography of his tormented homeland, which is at the very center of global interest.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Israel\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"With deeply engaging personal narratives and morally nuanced portraits, Ari Shavit takes us way beneath the headlines to the very heart of Israel's dilemmas in his brilliant new work. His expertise as a reporter comes through in the interviews, while his lyricism brings the writing--and the people--to life. Shavit also challenges Israelis and Diaspora Jewry to be bold in imagining the next chapter for Israel, a challenge that will no doubt be informed by this important book.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Rick Jacobs, president, Union for Reform Judaism\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is the epic history that Israel deserves--beautifully written, dramatically rendered, full of moral complexity. Ari Shavit has made a storied career of explaining Israel to Israelis; now he shares his mind-blowing, trustworthy insights with the rest of us. It is the best book on the subject to arrive in many years.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Franklin Foer, editor, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \"A beautiful, mesmerizing, morally serious, and vexing book. I've been waiting most of my adult life for an Israeli to plumb the deepest mysteries of his country's existence and share his discoveries, and Ari Shavit does so brilliantly, writing simultaneously like a poet and a prophet. \n\u003ci\u003eMy Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable achievement.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Ari Shavit's \n\u003ci\u003eMy Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read. Both movingly inspiring and at times heartbreakingly painful, \n\u003ci\u003eMy Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the Jewish state as it has never been told before, capturing both the triumph and the torment of Israel's experience and soul. This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Daniel Gordis, author of \u003ci\u003eSaving Israel \u003c\/i\u003eand Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College, Jerusalem\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This book is vital reading for Americans who care about the future, not only of the United States but of the world.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Jon Meacham, author of \u003ci\u003eThomas Jefferson: The Art of Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAri Shavit\u003c\/b\u003e is a leading Israeli journalist, a columnist for \n\u003ci\u003eHaaretz, \u003c\/i\u003e and a commentator on Israeli public television.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - A\u003ci\u003e NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eECONOMIST\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\" \n\u003cb\u003eA deeply reported, deeply personal history of Zionism and Israel that does something few books even attempt: It balances the strength and weakness, the idealism and the brutality, the hope and the horror, that has always been at Zionism's heart.\"--Ezra Klein, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAri Shavit's riveting work, now updated with new material, draws on historical documents, interviews, and private diaries and letters, as well as his own family's story, to create a narrative larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and of profound historical dimension. As he examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, Shavit asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can it survive? \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCulminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is facing \n\u003ci\u003e, My Promised Land \u003c\/i\u003euses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. 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