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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 956.05 EAN: 9780553804904 ISBN: 0553804901 Label: Bantam Manufacturer: Bantam Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: March 25, 2008 Publisher: Bantam Release Date: March 25, 2008 Studio: Bantam Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: For nearly twenty years, Aaron David Miller has played a central role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace. His position as an advisor to presidents, secretaries of state, and national security advisors has given him a unique perspective on a problem that American leaders have wrestled with for more than half a century. Why has the world’s greatest superpower failed to broker, or impose, a solution in the Middle East? If a solution is possible, what would it take? And why after so many years of struggle and failure, with the entire region even more unsettled than ever, should Americans even care? Is Israel/Palestine really the “much too promised land”? As a historian, analyst, and negotiator, perhaps no one is more qualified to answer these questions than Aaron David Miller. Without partisanship or finger-pointing, Miller lucidly and honestly records what went right, what went wrong, and how we got where we are today. Here is an insider’s view of the peace process from a place at the negotiating table, filled with unforgettable stories and colorful behind-the-scenes anecdotes. Here, too, are new interviews with all the key players, including Presidents Carter, Ford, Bush forty-one, all nine U.S. secretaries of state, as well Arab and Israeli leaders, who disclose the inner thoughts and strategies that motivated them. The result is a book that shatters all preconceived notions to tackle the complicated issues of culture, religion, domestic politics, and national security that have defined—and often derailed—a half century of diplomacy. Honest, critical, and certain to be controversial, this insightful first-person account offers a brilliant new analysis of the problem of Arab-Israeli peace and how, against all odds, it still might be solved. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Essential reading for anyone interested in Arab-Israeli issuesAaron Miller brings a truly unique insight into one of the world's most intractable yet fascinating conflicts: the search for Arab-Israeli peace. Not only does he provide a first-hand account of U.S. involvement in the region going back 20 years, he does so in an engaging, objective and often entertaining way. The book is part history lesson, part autobiography and part novel, written in such a way as to make it both accessible to newcomers and essential reading for scholars, diplomats and the ... Read More Rating: - First-person account of peace-makingPart memoir, part history, part journalism, this book by a veteran Arab-Israeli peace negotiator should appeal to Mideast junkies who still believe in the "peace process." A disclaimer: I covered many of these same events as State Dept. correspondent for Reuters from 1989-94. I was present at some of the events Miller describes; I traveled with Secretaries Baker and Christopher. I even interviewed Miller himself on background a number of times. (He seemed to enjoy chatting to reporters ... Read More Rating: - All You Need is Tough Love?Let me start with the praise: "The Much Too Promised Land" is the best book I know about the Arab-Israeli peace process of the 1990s. As much as any book I read does, it offers a detailed account without drowning in details. As an American negotiator, Aaron Miller might have bogged down in the day to day of the negotiations (like Dennis Ross in The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace). Instead this well written book manages to convey something of the bigger picture, of ... Read More Rating:  - Reads like a biography, absent a clear thesis and not well organizedThe book is about peace efforts between Israel and Palestinians/Arabs, as brokered by the United States. Aaron David Miller begins the book by briefly describing his life and career. He describes various personalities that influenced him as well as the people he worked for and with. This part of the book spans somewhere between 50 and 100 pages and is actually pretty boring since it doesn't touch on scholarship at all. He then goes on to describe the Jewish pro-Israel lobby, such as AIPAC. ... Read More Rating: - A much too personal bookI bought the audio cd version of this book, which I heard on a 500 mile drive. The book is a combination of history and insight, with the author's perspective. It was much more personal than detached. He is positive about both Democratic and Republican President for whom he has worked, but not afraid to discuss their shortcomings. He was there, on the front lines, as a negotiator. I enjoyed the books, and would recommend it, but would have bought an abridged edition had it been available. 
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