A Safe Haven; Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel
New York: Harper [An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers], 2009. Fifth printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 428, [4] pages. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by both authors on the fep. Allis Radosh has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the City University of New York, and served as a program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ronald Radosh, professor emeritus of history at the City University of New York and adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, is the author or coauthor of fourteen books, including The Rosenberg File. He has written for The New Republic, National Review, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. The Radoshes present a dramatic, in-depth account of President Truman's decision to recognize the state of Israel. A dramatic, detailed account of the events leading up to the creation of a Jewish homeland and the true story behind President Harry S. Truman's controversial decision to recognize of the State of Israel in 1948, drawn from Truman's long-lost diary entries and other previously unused archival materials. Extracted from a Jewish Book Council review found on-line by Noel Kriftcher (2012): Had Harry S. Truman not become America’s accidental president, would the State of Israel have been created? This is the central question in the compelling, comprehensive history of Israel’s birth, A Safe Haven: Harry Truman and the Founding of Israel. Authors Allis and Ronald Radosh offer a convincing defense of Truman, who was “guided by humanitarian and moral considerations,” and as a politician, determined that recognizing Israel was “in the national interest of the United States.”. More