Winner of the 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, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist and Foreign Affairs Columnist for The New York
Times, drew on his extensive experience in the region to
write a book that The Wall Street Journal called "a
sparkling intellectual guidebook . . . an engrossing
journey not to be missed." As the conflict in the Middle
East continues unabated, this seminal historical work
reaffirms both its timeliness and its timelessness.