From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

In 2008 he brought out Hot, Flat, and Crowded, which was published in a revised edition a year later. The World Is Flat has sold more than 4 million copies in thirty-seven languages. A revised and expanded edition was published in hardcover in 2006 and in 2007. His fourth book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (2005) became a #1 New York Times bestseller and received the inaugural Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in November 2005.

In 2002 FSG published a collection of his Pulitzer Prize-winning columns, along with a diary he kept after 9/11, as Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11.

His second book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (1999), won the Overseas Press Club Award for best book on foreign policy in 2000. Friedman’s first book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, won the National Book Award in 1989. At the Times, he has won three Pulitzer Prizes: in 1983 for international reporting (from Lebanon), in 1988 for international reporting (from Israel), and in 2002 for his columns after the September 11th attacks. After three years with United Press International, he joined The New York Times, where he has worked ever since as a reporter, correspondent, bureau chief, and columnist. degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. Antony's College, Oxford, on a Marshall Scholarship, and received an M.Phil. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies, attended St. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist-the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of five bestselling books, among them From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat. He was born in Minneapolis in 1953, and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St.

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman