Saving Israel

The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, and even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else. Can Israel win the next military war for survival? Can it defuse the demographic time bomb of a growing Arab population? Can a country that's come so far and sacrificed so much keep up the will to fight? Daniel Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the cause, and in Saving Israel, he outlines how. Never has the case for defending--no, celebratingthe existence of Israel been so clear, so passionate, or so worthy of wholehearted support.

Daniel Gordis (Jerusalem, Israel) is Senior Vice President and a Senior Fellow of the Shalem Center. His books include Coming Together, Coming Apart (978-0-471-78961-1) and If a Place Can Make You Cry (978-1-4000-4613-3).

"Excellent and devastating."--Joe Klein, Time.com

America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled George W. Bush and his aides to get so far off track, and traces the genesis and evolution of these ideas from Nixon through Reagan to the present.

"Illuminating . . . incisive." The New York Times

Fred Kaplan (Brooklyn, NY) writes the "War Stories" column in Slate and has written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and other publications. He is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter and the author of The Wizards of Armageddon (978-0-8047-1884-4).