Background
Viorst, Milton was born on February 18, 1930 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Louis and Betty (LeVine) Viorst.
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America’s engagement with the Arab world stretches back far beyond the Iraq wars. According to Milton Viorst, the current conflict is simply the latest round in a 1,400-year struggle between Christianity and Islam, in which the United States became a participant only in the last century. Today, the Bush Doctrine aims to free the Arab peoples from political oppression and create a democratic Iraq. So why are Arabs, and Iraqis in particular, so suspicious of our efforts? The explanation, Viorst says, is simple: “What the American leadership has miscalculated, or simply dismissed, is Arab nationalism.” In Storm from the East, Viorst offers a balanced, lucid, and vital history of America’s uneasy relationship with the Arab world and argues that brutal conflict in the region will continue until the West, with the United States taking the lead, honors the Arabs’ insistence on deciding their own destiny. Viorst examines the long struggle of the Arab world to overthrow Western hegemony. He explores the Arab experiences with democracy and military despotism; Nasserite socialism in Egypt and Ba’athism in Syria and Iraq; tribal monarchy in Saudi Arabia and Jordan; guerrilla warfare waged by the Palestinians; and, finally, Islamic rebellion culminating in Osama bin Laden’s extremist al-Qaeda. All have the same goal: the liberation of the Arabs from foreign domination. Storm from the East is a powerful work that, like no other, limns the political, religious, and social roots of Arab nationalism and the present-day unrest in the Middle East. From the Hardcover edition.
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In Sandcastles, Milton Viorst draws upon his long personal experience in the Middle East and many recent trips undertaken as a correspondent for The New Yorker to take us deep into the aspirations, fears, prejudices, hopes and convictions of the inhabitants of seven key countries, and of the people without a country - the Palestinians.
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With a foreword by Edward McNall Burns, a list of documents, an introduction, a reading list, and an index. There are103 documents in the list, from the correspondence between Pliny and Trajan to the United Nations Charter. Name in ink in corner of free endpaper. xvii, 388 pages. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 8vo..
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Viorst, Milton was born on February 18, 1930 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Louis and Betty (LeVine) Viorst.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Rutgers University, 1951. Student (Fulbright scholar), University Lyon, France, 1952. Master of Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955.
Master of Science, Columbia University, New York City, 1956.
In 1951, he was a Fulbright scholar in France. From 1956 to 1993, Viorst often contributed in various ways to publications such as The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, Harper"s Magazine, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
His writing landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.
In the early 1980s, he grew interested in Middle Eastern policy and became a specialist in this field He is the author of six books on the subject, including In the Shadow of The Prophet.
They have three grown sons: Anthony Jacob Viorst, an attorney practicing in the Denver, Colorado area. Nicholas Nathan "Nick" Viorst, an Assistant District Attorney for New York County, and Alexander Noah Viorst, who finances affordable apartment properties around the country.
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In April 2016, Viorst will publish Zionism: The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal with Saint Martin"s Press.
Chairman Fund for Investigative Journalism, 1969-1978. Board directors Georgetown Day School, 1977-1980. Member of national advising committee Middle East Policy Council Served as officer United States Air Force, 1952-1954.
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Society Professional Journalists, Author's Guild, Council on Foreign Rels., American Peace Now, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Judith Stahl, January 30, 1960. Children— Anthony, Nicholas, Alexander.
