| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood. By Lawrence Davidson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 264 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2421-8.)

American views of the Palestine-Israeli issue have been the subject of several important monograph studies over the past three decades. Lawrence Davidson, professor of history at West Chester University, however, offers an incisive and new perspective on many of the issues. He concentrates on the reaction of four leading American newspapers, the views of the State Department, the responses of Arab Americans, and the significance of important pressure groups from the time of the American missionary effort in the Near East in the nineteenth century and the rise of Zionism to the image Americans had as late as the 1960s of Israel 'as a progressive Western outpost, and the Israelis as a modern people redeeming a land rightfully theirs,' as portrayed in the 1960 film Exodus. . . .

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