Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374529802)

"The definitive and gripping account of the sometimes exhilarating, often tortured twists and turns in the Middle East peace process, viewed from the front row by one of its major players."--Bill Clinton

The Missing Peace, published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside account of the Middle East peace process ever written. Dennis Ross, the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the presidential administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, is that rare figure who is respected by all parties: Democrats and Republicans, Palestinians and Israelis, presidents and people on the street in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Washington, D.C.

Ross recounts the peace process in detail from 1988 to the breakdown of talks in early 2001 that prompted the so-called second Intifada-and takes account of recent developments in a new afterword written for this edition. It's all here: Camp David, Oslo, Geneva, Egypt, and other summits; the assassination of Yitzak Rabin; the rise and fall of Benjamin Netanyahu; the very different characters and strategies of Rabin, Yasir Arafat, and Bill Clinton; and the first steps of the Palestinian Authority. For the first time, the backroom negotiations, the dramatic and often secretive nature of the process, and the reasons for its faltering are on display for all to see. The Missing Peace explains, as no other book has, why Middle East peace remains so elusive.

Author: Dennis Ross
ISBN-10: 0374529809
ISBN-13: 9780374529802
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2005
Pages: 880
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.90d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 108
New York Times 06/26/2005 pg. 24