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Gershom Gorenberg

Gershom Gorenberg is the author of The Unmaking of Israel (Harper Collins, November 2011), a provocative examination of Israeli history that describes the crisis of Israeli democracy and lays out a liberal vision for the country's future. "Until I read The Unmaking of Israel ," says novelist Michael Chabon, "I didn't think it could be possible to feel more despairing, and then more terribly hopeful, about Israel."Gorenberg's previous book is The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements,

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