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The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
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Author:
Walter Russell Mead
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
July 5, 2022
A work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and, in doing so, explores how fundamental debates about American identity drive our country's foreign policy.
What The Reviewers Say
Mead leads us with an even tone and expert hand through centuries of history, and through disparate topics including Puritan theology, the politics at the court of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the personality of Billy Graham.
Mead sets the record straight by presenting a long and nuanced alternative history of U.S.-Israel relations.
... magisteria.
In nearly 700 pages, Mead engages readers with his thoughts on the historical arc between the U.S. and its relationship with Jewish people and Israel...The author supplies an overview of the political and cultural context of U.S. support from colonial times to the present...He reviews the words and actions from George Washington, Theodore Herzl, to American support for the Balfour Declaration, and American Christians who support the State of Israel...A meticulously written and engaging volume that may make readers pause and reconsider an issue they thought they already knew...Best suited for those interested in the history of the Middle East, Israel, U.S. studies, and Jewish history..
