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David K. Shipler

David K. Shipler , the former Jerusalem bureau chief for the Times , is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land,” which has just been published in a revised edition.

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3 picks · 1989–1991

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THE POLITICS OF NEIGHBORHOOD
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about Moscow, especially the Krasno-Presnensky neighborhood. In Mar., 1990 the country's first truly free elections were held. The …

BETWEEN DICTATORSHIP AND ANARCHY
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about politics in the Soviet Union, especially the meetings of the Congress of People's Deputies in March, which elected Gorbachev …

SYMBOLS OF SOVEREIGNTY
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the surge of national awakening in Estonia. Estonia was initially the most adventurous of the SOviet Union's 15 republics in …