David Harris-Gershon's Books

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

A Memoir

By: David Harris-Gershon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

A Memoir

By: David Harris-Gershon

David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Then, mere days after Israel thwarted historic cease-fire negotiations among the Palestinians, a bomb ripped open Hebrew University’s cafeteria. Jamie’s body was sliced with shrapnel; the friends sitting next to her were killed. When a doctor handed David some of the shrapnel removed from Jamie’s body, he could not accept that this piece of metal changed everything. But it had. The bombing sent David on a psychological journey that found himdigging through shadowy politics and traumatic histories, eventually leading him back to East Jerusalem and the Hamas terrorist and his family. Not out of revenge. Out of desperation. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, this fearless debut confronts the personal costs of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and our capacity for recovery and reconciliation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

231

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1780742223

ISBN 13

9781780742229

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

A Memoir

By: David Harris-Gershon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

A Memoir

By: David Harris-Gershon

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

231

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1780742223

ISBN 13

9781780742229

Freedom of Speech

Mightier Than the Sword

By: David K. Shipler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Freedom of Speech

Mightier Than the Sword

By: David K. Shipler

A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America With his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical American ideal: freedom of speech. Anchored in personal stories—sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar—Shipler’s investigations of the cultural limits on both expression and the willingness to listen build to expose troubling instabilities in the very foundations of our democracy. Focusing on recent free speech controversies across the nation, Shipler maps a rapidly shifting topography of political and cultural norms: parents in Michigan rallying to teachers vilified for their reading lists; conservative ministers risking their churches’ tax-exempt status to preach politics from the pulpit; national security reporters using techniques more common in dictatorships to avoid leak prosecution; a Washington, D.C., Jewish theater’s struggle for creative control in the face of protests targeting productions critical of Israel; history teachers in Texas quietly bypassing a reactionary curriculum to give students access to unapproved perspectives; the mixed blessings of the Internet as a forum for dialogue about race. These and other stories coalesce to reveal the systemic patterns of both suppression and opportunity that are making today a transitional moment for the future of one of our founding principles. Measured yet sweeping, Freedom of Speech brilliantly reveals the triumphs and challenges of defining and protecting the boundaries of free expression in modern America.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

354

Publisher

Vintage

Published Date

ISBN 10

0307947610

ISBN 13

9780307947611

Book's by David Harris-Gershon

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

Freedom of Speech

Freedom of Speech

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email