Shipler, David K.

"Anchored in personal stories...[Pulitizer Prize winner David K.] Shipler's investigations of the cultural limits on both expression and the willingness to listen build to expose troubling instabilities in the very foundations of our democracy...'Freedom of Speech' reveals the triumphs and challenges of defining and protecting the boundaries of freeexpression in modern America"--amazon.com.

Examines the ways that African Americans and white people in the United States view each other and the psychological impact the races have on each other.

Examines the roots of the second intifada in the Israeli-Arab conflict, documenting the events preceding and following the Oslo peace process. Addresses the Palestinian right of return, the holy city of Jerusalem, and the West Bank Jewish settlements.

Examines the roots of the second intifada in the Israeli-Arab conflict, documenting the events preceding and following the Oslo peace process. Addresses the Palestinian right of return, the holy city of Jerusalem, and the West Bank Jewish settlements.

Examines the relationships, mutual images, and stereotypes that have evolved between Arabs and Jews in Israel and in territorities under Israeli control.

Publisher's description: From a Pulitzer Prize winner and the bestselling author of "The Working Poor" comes an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade--and their direct impact on our lives.

Examines the relationships, mutual images, and stereotypes that have evolved between Arabs and Jews in Israel and in territorities under Israeli control.

Examines the lives of the working poor in America--people who exist just barely beneath or a little above the federal government's official poverty line, and discusses the obstacles they face in trying to improve their circumstances.

Presents personal impressions of many ordinary individual Russians, as formed by David K. Shipler, former Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times.