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A multi-award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of a major Australian newspaper searingly explores his Jewish identity at a time when a substantial ¿ and growing ¿ part of the left is opposed to the very existence of Israel as a Jewish state. Born in a displaced persons¿ camp two years after the end of the Holocaust, Michael Gawenda spent his childhood and teenage years in a left-wing non-Zionist Jewish youth group in Melbourne. Th...

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Funny, sad, and full of delightful surprises, this series of vignettes chronicles the friendship between journalist Michael Gawenda and his furry dog of indeterminate breeding, Rocky, as they engage in conversation about dogs, love, memory, the meaning of work, and the passing of time. Part memoir, part social observation, this compilation reflects not only on Gawenda's personal life--including the story of his Polish-Jewish immigrant family--...

Probing the psyche of the American people, this extended essay examines how the country' s mindset has changed during the tumultuous presidency of George W. Bush. The investigation draws on individual experiences as well as factual reporting, melding the personal and the political to capture the real mood of a powerful nation. Full of bold insights and brash honesty, this revealing study presents Americans as worried and disillusioned, artfull...