Winner of the 1989 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, 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, this seminal
historical work reaffirms both its timeliness and its
timelessness.