Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David Audiobook

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• “It is brilliant penetrating scholarship…Wright expertly captures every move of the three-way realpolitik chess match. By using each man’s biography to illuminate the history of his respective nation, he not only chronicles Camp David but elucidates the issues that continue to plague the Middle East.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Mr. Wright displays a sensitive understanding of the region and a fine pen as he sketches in the characters and motivations of the three main players.”

  — Economist

• “A magnificent book [from] one of our finest nonfiction writers…In his minute-by-minute account of the talks, Wright intersperses a concise history of Egyptian-Israeli relations dating from the story of Exodus. Even more important is Wright’s understanding that Sadat, Begin, and Carter were not just political leaders but exemplars of the Holy Land’s three internecine religious traditions.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Exceedingly balanced, highly readable, and appropriately sober.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Spellbinding…What makes the story a page-turner isn’t the day-by-day details of the negotiations. It’s Wright’s seamless, compelling backgrounding of the region’s violent history, the enmities and peculiarities of the players who came to the remote presidential retreat in the Maryland mountains to reach a monumental, if flawed, accord that endures to this day.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “An engrossing chronicle of Carter’s marathon peace negotiations…an illuminating view of a vital event that has been all but forgotten—and of a single-minded, even messianic president whose White House years have been denigrated and discredited…In examining the three, Wright is both fascinated and fair-minded, seeing men of faith and fortitude, and ultimately of vision, with stark similarities and even starker differences…A wonderful book.”

  — Boston Globe

• “A splendid and suspenseful account of the Camp David negotiations.”

  — Minneapolis Star-Tribune

• “A chronicle of diplomatic success…The heart of the book is the daily, sometimes hourly shifts in tactics and postures, stands, and counterstands, that unfolded over thirteen days in 1978.”

  — Cleveland Plain Dealer

• “Fascinating personal and historic detail.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “A Pulitzer Prize–winning author reconstructs and reflects on ‘one of the great diplomatic triumphs of the twentieth century’ and the men who made it happen…A unique moment in history superbly captured. Yet another triumph for Wright.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “Mark Bramhall’s voice has a remarkable calm strength and evenness throughout his excellent reading of this in-depth, clear-eyed examination of the Middle East…Bramhall’s delivery reflects how serious a task it was to bring three very different leaders and personalities together to talk peace for thirteen short days in September 1978. Essential listening. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

  — AudioFile