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If you have an expert’s knowledge about the
Middle East—or none whatsoever—Melissa
Rossi’s What Every American Should Know
About the Middle East is the one book—bar
none—that you need to read.
You may not agree with all of Rossi’s opinions—
this reviewer does not—but one thing is guaranteed:
you will not find anywhere so comprehensive and so
largely balanced an accounting of the region: its
players, its politics, its culture, its ideology, all
wrapped up in a lively-written, attractively assembled,
easy-reading and often amusing 493-page volume.
Miss Rossi is familiar to AMERICAN FREE PRESS
readers as the author of such works as What Every
American Should Know About Who’s Running
America, but she is more than that. She’s a globetrotting
correspondent who has written for such
“mainstream” publications as Newsweek, National
GeographicTraveler, Newsday, Esquire, George and
others.
While there are many guidebooks to the Middle
East, they are largely “traveler-oriented” they generally
tend to parrot the official U.S. (and Israeli) propaganda
line. Not so with Miss Rossi’s book.
You’ll find it most informative and you will not find
another book that is so comprehensive in its scope and
yet, at the same time, so enjoyable.
Softcover, 493 pages, #ME
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