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Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Paper, 456 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13349-4
$27.50
/ £16.00
January, 2008
Cloth, 456 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13348-7
$79.50
/ £47.00
"Pens and
Swords doesn't just decry systematic distortion but explains why it happens
again and again. Dunsky makes use of theory to illuminate rather than obscure, bringing academic
rigor to a topic so politicized that many avoid it out of fear. Thanks to Dunsky for this brave
and timely book." — Robert Jensen, University of Texas at Austin
"This is an important book; a vital contribution to the scholarship
on this issue. The empirical evidence that Dunsky has so diligently provided for her arguments
constitutes her book's greatest strength." — Karim H. Karim, director, School of
Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Canada
in the American media's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which makes it almost
impossible to have intelligent debates about that dispute and its effects on U.S. Middle East
policy. Anyone concerned about why the United States is in so much trouble in the Arab and
Islamic world should read Pens and Swords." —
John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science,
the University of Chicago
"Written by a journalist and
scholar who has reported from the region, this book is a perceptive, careful, and factual
assessment of why the American mainstream media do such an exceedingly poor job of conveying the
realities of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, instead perpetuating stereotypes and
echoing the conceits of policymakers in Washington." — Rashid Khalidi, Edward W.
Said Professor of Arab Studies, Middle East Institute, Columbia University