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

Author: Kai Bird

Narrator: Joe Caron

Unabridged: 15 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/11/2010


Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’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.

About 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alan

Yossi Klein Halevi wrote a book, "Letters To My Palestinian Neighbors" to share his history and perspective of the conflict with the Palestinians. I am a firm believer that we need to deal with the facts on the ground today to address and resolve the conflict; however, understanding the history and......more

This is a pretty interesting memoir. His parents were "arabists" with the Foreign Service for his entire life. He talks about he and his family knowing Salem, the brother of Osama bin Laden (apparently polar opposite), living for a time in the same neighborhood as Zarkawi, knowing both the old and t......more

Goodreads review by Karen

The author, the son of a U.S. foreign service officer, grew up as an ex-pat in the Middle East and eventually married an American Jew, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. In this way, he has had the opportunity to view the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from both sides. The Mandelbaum Gate, which sep......more

Goodreads review by Maddie

super interesting good information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the authors POV......more