A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations.

NETANYAHU, Benjamin. [William Safire].

$1,800.00

Item Number: 127073

New York: Warner Books, 2000.

First edition of Netanyahu’s masterful tribute to Israel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with maps. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bill Safire, an avowed and unabashed supporter of Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu.” The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safire’s “magnum opus,” Safire’s Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Ya’acov Sa’ar.

"Powerful, lucidly argued... impressive... Very few Israeli spokesmen have ever understood the Arab arguments against Israel so well, or deployed counterarguments so skillfully... Often entertaining as well as instructive." (Conor Cruise Obrien, New York Times Book Review).