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    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
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    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978

    Written by Kai Bird

    Narrated by Joe Caron

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    Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird#8217;s vivid memoir of a childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudia Arabia, and his personal account of three major wars and three decades of political upheavals in the Middle East.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMay 11, 2010
    ISBN9781615730988
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    Kai Bird

    Kai Bird is the coauthor with Martin J. Sherwin of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which was the inspiration for the film Oppenheimer, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. His other books include The Chairman: John J. McCloy, the Making of the American Establishment, The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy & William Bundy, Brothers in Arms, and The Outlier. Bird is the winner of the 2024 BIO Award for his contributions to the art and craft of biography. His many other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A contributing editor of The Nation, he lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, with his wife and son.

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      A very thought-provoking memoir. Bird grew up in various Muslim countries (his father was a diplomat) and was extremely sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. He married the daughter of two Holocaust survivors and then gained a more sympathetic understanding of Israeli history which caused him to moderate his views somewhat. His conclusions are rosier than I believe to be warranted, but I still think this is a must-read if you are interested in the history of this area.