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Israel in the American mind :The cultural politics of US-Israeli relations,1958-1988

"This book examines the changing meanings Americans and Israelis invested in the relationship between their countries from the late 1950s to its solidification as a military alliance in the 1980s. Bringing to light previously unexamined sources, this study is the first to investigate the intric...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitelpunkt, Shaul
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Cambridge University Press 2018
Series:Cambridge studies in US foreign relations
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Did I see only America?"; Part I. The Disciple State; 1. "Lie Without Blushing": Manipulation and Friction in the Courtship of Patronage, 1958-1960; 2. "Might as well be the Midwest": Visions of Israel as a Development Project, 1961-1967; Part II. The Citizen Soldier; 3. Envying "indomitable citizenry": The Zenith of US Fascination with the Israeli Citizen-Soldier, 1967-1973; 4. Reforming Sparta: The October War and the Collapse of the Citizen-Soldier Idyll, 1973-1976; Part III. Processes of Peach and War; 5. "We ARE moral leaders in the world": The Popular Foundations of the Camp David Agreement, 1976-1979; 6. "Recollections and Regrets": Israel and the Conservative-Liberal Divide, 1980-1988; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.