From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: a grand human story
Poetry and politics: the Jewish nation seeks a home
Some spot of a native land
A conversation, not an ideology: Zionist divisions at the turn of the century
From a dream to glimmers of reality
The Balfour declaration: the empire endorses the state
Nowhere to go, even if they could leave
The Yishuv resists the British, the Arabs battle partition
Independence: the state is born
From dreams of a state to the reality of statehood
Israel enters the international arena
Israel confronts the Holocaust
Six days of war change a country forever
Yom Kippur War: the "conception" crashes
Revolution within the revolution: the rise and revenge of Israel's political right
Taking a page from the Zionists: the rise of Palentinian nationalism
A Jewish renaissance in the Jewish state
Conclusion: a century after Balfour
"A national home for the Jewish people."
