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The Elected and the Chosen: Why American Presidents Have Supported Jews and Israel This book reveals how and why, almost without exception, American presidents sought to protect Jews at home and abroad from their often deadly enemies. It explains why American presidents have admired and befriended Jews, appointed them to powerful positions, and eventually helped them achieve their greatest dream: a return to the country of their forebears and the establishment of a Jewish state in which they were masters of their destiny. Based on once-secret documents and little-known diaries, The Elected and the Chosen discloses, for the first time, the close ties that have bound American presidents and the Jews from the dawn of American history.

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Denis Brian is the author of seventeen published books as well as numerous plays. His works include Joseph Pulitzer: A Life, and Genius Talk: Conversations With Nobel Laureates and Other Luminaries. He lives in the United States with his wife, Martine.
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This book reveals how and why, almost without exception, American presidents sought to protect Jews at home and abroad from their often deadly enemies. It explains why American presidents have admired and befriended Jews, appointed them to powerful positions, and eventually helped them achieve their greatest dream: a return to the country of their forebears and the establishment of a Jewish state in which they were masters of their destiny. Based on once-secret documents and little-known diaries, The Elected and the Chosen discloses, for the first time, the close ties that have bound American presidents and the Jews from the dawn of American history. --Professor Alan M. Dershowitz

The notion that every American president has supported Jews and Israel will not ring true with all American Jews. But Brian goes back to the country's founding, when the financial support of Jewish colonist Haym Solomon saved the newly created United States from financial disaster to probe America's continuing commitment to Israel's security, and the personal relationships of U.S. presidents with American Jews, Zionists, and Israeli leaders. Prolific biographer Brian (Joseph Pulitzer: A Life) tracks the U.S.'s protection of the chosen people in Israel and elsewhere, and the varying motives of the elected. In doing so, tension between presidents' public stances and private attitudes on Israeli politics is conveyed to occasionally shocking effect, exemplified by President Nixon, whose Oval Office tapes revealed his anti-Semitism yet who made larger commitments of military aid to Israel than any of his predecessors. The book's president-by-president narrative is formulaic, and Brian indiscriminately mentions every Jew ever appointed to government (Madeleine Albright, after all, wasn't even aware of her Jewish heritage when Clinton named her secretary of state). The most value in the book is explaining how the U.S.'s support of the creation and security of Israel is related to the founding principles of the country, the colonists desire for religious freedom Agent: Phyllis Westberg, Harold Ober Associates. (Sept.) --Publishers Weekly

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  • PublisherGefen Publishing House
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 9652295981
  • ISBN 13 9789652295989
  • BindingPaperback
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