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Book Review of From Beirut to Jerusalem

From Beirut to Jerusalem
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From the dust jacket: "....(the author) describes with intense vividness what it's like to live in a city gone mad like Beirut; he leads us on an unforgettable journey into the inner circle of Arab regimes to show how the game of Araab politics is really played; he exmines the intifada and Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics, the Lebanese factions, news reporting from the Middle East, and American's difficulty in understanding them. Extremism, terrorism, fundamentalism on right and left-Friedman puts all the operative currents into perspective with...clarity...".

Two time Pulitzer Prize winning author.