http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16873 The following books are reviewed: Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the US?Israel Alliance by Warren Bass Oxford University Press, 336 pp. Israel and the Bomb by Avner Cohen Columbia University Press, 470 pp. Quotation from the article: "Today, few remember how relatively chilly and reserved US relations with Israel had been before Kennedy." Regards Franz Fuchs ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html