From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated with a New Chapter

xv, 588 pp. "Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for nonfiction, this extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times, drew on his ten years in the Middle East to write a book that The Wall Street Journal called 'a sparkling intellectual guidebook... an engrossing journey not to be missed.' Now with a new chapter that brings the ever-changing history of the conflict in the Middle East up to date, this seminal historical work reaffirms both its timeliness and its timelessness. 'If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it.' -- Seymour Hersh. 'From Beirut To Jerusalem is the most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read.' -- New York Times Book Review." CONTENTS: A Middle East Chronology; Prelude: From Minneapolis to Beirut; Beirut - Would You Like to Eat Now or Wait for the Cease-fire?, Beirut: City of Versions, Hama Rules, The Teflon Guerrilla, Inside the Kaleidoscope: The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, Poker, Beirut-Style, Betty Crocker in Dante's Inferno, The End of Something, Time to Go, Jerusalem - Crosswinds, Whose Country Is This, Anyway?, The Fault Line, The Earthquake, Under the Spotlight, Israel and American Jews: Who Is Dreaming about Whom?; Conclusion - From Beirut to Jerusalem to Washington, Talking with My Grocer, Buying a Ticket; Acknowledgments; Index