From the Book - First edition.
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 Palestinian nationalism
A Jewish renaissance in the Jewish state
"A national home for the Jewish people"
Appendix A. Glossary of people mentioned
Appendix B. Glossary of non-English terms
Appendix C. Israel's Declaration of Independence
Appendix D. Israeli prime ministers and the American and Israeli presidents with whom they worked
Appendix E. Israeli political parties and their changing balance of power.
