Revenge; A Story of Hope

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. 382, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. Inscription signed by the author on fep but recipient's name blacked out. Laura Blumenfeld is a best-selling author, Middle East analyst, and a scholar in residence at the Berkley Center. She previously served in the US State Department as senior policy advisor for the Middle East Peace Process. Blumenfeld spent two decades as a reporter for the Washington Post, covering the Middle East, national security, and presidential politics; she has also been a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund. She is the author of Revenge: A Story of Hope (2002), a global study of the dynamics of revenge and an account of her search for the Palestinian terrorist who shot her father. Blumenfeld holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a master's degree from Columbia University. She is also a public policy fellow at the Wilson Center. Derived from a Kirkus review: Journalist Blumenfeld explores her own family history, and documents the practice of revenge around the world. In 1986, a Palestinian terrorist took aim at Blumenfeld’s father and squeezed off a single shot, grazing Blumenfeld père’s scalp but leaving him very much alive. Harvard student Laura vowed revenge. Over a decade later, she returned to live in Jerusalem and to find the man who tried to take her father’s life. Blumenfeld finds herself possessed with a need to do something. She seeks out the shooter’s family, attempting to visit the gunman in jail, and flying around the world researching how other cultures process the revenge drive. In Israel, she interviews plenty of people with opinions on revenge. Meanwhile, her parents are uneasy with her obsession. This interweaving of daily life with a drive for vengeance, of the revenge stories of others, and of a startling showdown of mercy for the shooter himself, makes for a gripping read. Condition: Very good / Very good.

Keywords: Terrorism, Ala-din Bazian, David Blumenfeld, Revenge, Forgiveness, Omar Khatib, Benjamin Netanyahu, Baruch Weiss, Leah Zemel, Violence

ISBN: 0684853167

[Book #76209]

Price: $45.00

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