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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
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“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
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“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
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“Exceedingly balanced, highly
readable, and appropriately sober.”
— Los Angeles Times
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“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
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“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
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“A splendid and suspenseful account
of the Camp David negotiations.”
— Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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“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
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“Fascinating personal and historic
detail.”
— Christian Science Monitor
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“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)
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“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