<div>Herman Wouk has ranged in his novels from the mighty narrative of The Caine Mutiny and the warm, intimate humor of Marjorie Morningstar to the global panorama of The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. All these powers merge in this major new work of nonfiction, The Will to Live On, an illuminating account of the worldwide revolution that has been sweeping over Jewry, set against a swiftly reviewed background of history, tradition, and sacred literature.Forty years ago, in his modern classic This Is My God, Herman Wouk stated the case for his religious beliefs and conduct. His aim in that work and in The Will to Live On has been to break through the crust of prejudice, to reawaken clearheaded thought about the magnificent Jewish patrimony, and to convey a message of hope for Jewish survival.Although the Torah and the Talmud are timeless, the twentieth century has brought earthquake shocks to the Jews: the apocalyptic experience of the Holocaust, the reborn Jewish state, the precarious American diaspora, and deepening religious schisms. After a lifetime of study, Herman Wouk examines the changes affecting the Jewish world, especially the troubled wonder of Israel, and the remarkable, though dwindling, American Jewry. The book is peppered with wonderful stories of the author's encounters with such luminaries as Ben Gurion, Isidor Rabi, Yitzhak Rabin, Saul Bellow, and Richard Feynan.Learned in general culture, warmly tolerant of other beliefs, this noted author expresses his own other beliefs, this noted author expresses his own faith with a passion that gives the book its fire and does so in the clear, engaging style that--as in all Wouk's fiction--makes the reader want to know what the next page will bring.</div>

The Will To Live On

<div>New York Times Bestseller: A &ldquo;sprawling, action-packed novel&rdquo; of Israel by the author of The Hope (Philadelphia Inquirer). This follow-up to The Hope plunges immediately into the violence and upheaval of the Six-Day War of 1967&mdash;and continues the stories of its multiple characters and of Israel&rsquo;s dramatic struggle for survival across the years. The Glory takes readers through the terrors of the Yom Kippur War, the famous Entebbe rescue, and the airstrikes on Saddam Hussein&rsquo;s nuclear reactor&mdash;ending with the final hope for peace. Illuminating the inner lives of real Israeli leaders&mdash;including David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, and Ariel Sharon&mdash;the Pulitzer Prize-winning &ldquo;master of the historical novel&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times) tells the story of Israel&rsquo;s struggle to exist with a compelling sense of both the broad significance of this time in history, and its personal impact on those who lived through it. &ldquo;A genuinely enjoyable read.&rdquo;&mdash;Detroit News &ldquo;A top-notch storyteller.&rdquo;&mdash;Time</div>

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The Glory

<div>A sweeping epic of Israel from its founding to the Six-Day War, from the #1 NewYork Times-bestselling author: &ldquo;Full of excitement.&rdquo;&mdash;Entertainment Weekly From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Winds of War and The Caine Mutiny, this saga spans from 1948 to 1967, the early decades of the state of Israel as it fights for its life, outmatched and surrounded by enemies&mdash;the first of the two-part epic that concludes with The Glory. Zev Barak, Sam Pasternak, Don Kishote, and Benny Luria are all officers in the Israeli army, caught up in the sweep of history, fighting the desperate desert battles and meeting the larger-than-life personalities that shaped Israel&rsquo;s fight for independence. The four heroes, and the women they love, weave a compelling tapestry of individual destinies through a grand recounting of one nation&rsquo;s struggle against the odds. &ldquo;Much of the dialogue is witty; the descriptions of back-channel diplomacy between the United States and Israel are fascinating and convincing.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;Solid historical research&hellip;fictional characters of Wouk&#39;s own invention rub shoulders with real-life historical figures like David Ben Gurion [and] Moshe Dayan.&rdquo;&mdash;The Christian Science Monitor &ldquo;Rich and satisfying&hellip;deftly portrays the human face of inhuman conflict.&rdquo;&mdash;The Cleveland Plain Dealer &ldquo;An engrossing and often moving tale.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

The Hope

<div>A &ldquo;truly enjoyable&rdquo; journey through one man&rsquo;s Jewish American experience by the #1 New York Times-bestselling authorof Marjorie Morningstar (Newsday). Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing time in the office by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian-Jewish immigrant family. As he recounts his brief stint in show business, his torrid affair with a showgirl, and his encounters with a hassled and distracted President Nixon, Goodkind also witnesses historical events firsthand&mdash;the Watergate scandal, the Yom Kippur War&mdash;and eventually finds his way back to his Jewish faith. Combining Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk&rsquo;s wildly comic streak with his deep respect for religious tradition, Inside, Outside is both one man&rsquo;s story and &ldquo;a social comedy of Jewish-American life reaching from New York to Jerusalem and spanning much of the 20th century&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;Extremely funny.&rdquo;&mdash;The Wall Street Journal &ldquo;Wouk reaffirms his position as one of the nation&rsquo;s eminent storytellers.&rdquo;&mdash;Newsday &ldquo;Wouk`s most significant work since The Caine Mutiny.&rdquo;&mdash;Chicago Tribune &ldquo;Generously stuffed with zestfully old-fashioned humor and sentiment.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Inside, Outside

<div>A writer finds wealth, fame, and sorrow in midcentury Manhattan in &ldquo;a tremendous novel&hellip;full of wisdom and pain&rdquo; by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author (Los Angeles Times). Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man, moves from hardscrabble rural Kentucky to New York, hoping to make his mark on the literary world. His first novel becomes an instant hit, and he is toasted by critics and swept along on a tide of celebrity. But as he gives himself over to the lush life that gilds artistic success&mdash;indulging in an affair with an older married woman and a flirtation with his editor, dabbling in real estate developments as his second novel brings him massive wealth and even bigger opportunities&mdash;he will soon find himself in a self-destructive downward spiral. Inspired by the life of Thomas Wolfe, and spanning from the Manhattan publishing world to Hollywood to Europe, Youngblood Hawke is both a riveting saga of postwar glamor and a poignant tale of one man&rsquo;s rise and fall. &ldquo;A big, powerful, exciting novel...Wouk has a tremendous narrative gift.&rdquo;&mdash;San Francisco Chronicle &ldquo;As searing and accurate a picture of New York in the late 1940s and 1950s as Bonfire of the Vanities was of its period&hellip;And icing the cake are some marvelous Hollywood sections, including the best agent-in-action-on-two-telephones scenes ever captured in print.&rdquo;&mdash;Los Angeles Times</div>

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