| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

John F. Kennedy and Israel. By Herbert M. Druks. (Westport: Praeger, 2005. xii, 183 pp. $64.95, ISBN 0-275-98007-3.)
This slender volume seeks to explicate President John F. Kennedy's policy toward Israel. Herbert M. Druks examines U.S.-Israeli diplomacy on such significant issues as economic and military aid, the status of Palestinian refugees, and Israel's nuclear weapons program. Yet the quality of this volume is so modest—especially when compared to recent books by Warren Bass, Douglas Little, and Avner Cohen—that it is difficult to recommend it to scholars or students.	1
At first glance, Druks's volume appears promising. The author explores an important and complex diplomatic relationship during a three-year period marked by dramatic change. The front matter carries the imprimatur of Praeger Security International, a series whose advisory board features several eminent scholars of international affairs. The bibliography suggests, moreover, that Druks conducted broad research in primary sources, interview transcripts, and memoirs of the United States and Israel.	. . .

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