Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for non-fiction, 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, the seminal historical work reaffirms both its timeliness and its timelessness.
by Thomas L. Freidman