Glenn Frankel, Author Simon & Schuster $23.5 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-79649-5
Israel is making the transition from a collectivist, mobilized garrison state to a more open, pluralistic, consumer-oriented and democratic country, according to Frankel, former Jerusalem bureau chief for the Washington Post (and now its London...
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Glenn Frankel, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-25099-7
A former South Africa bureau chief of the Washington Post, Frankel writes with depth and style about a group of mostly Jewish, mostly Communist, activists who, in the early 1960s, allied themselves with black activists seeking an end to apartheid....
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Glenn Frankel. Bloomsbury, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-60819-105-5
John Ford’s classic 1956 western film The Searchers, starring John Wayne, drew inspiration from the 19th-century kidnappings of Cynthia Ann Parker: first as a child by Comanche warriors, and over two decades later—as a wife and mother—by misguided...
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Glenn Frankel. Bloomsbury, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-1-62040-948-0
In this timely historical account, Pulitzer-winner Frankel (The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend) details how the 1952 western High Noon, about a marshal forsaken by his neighbors after outlaws target him, became a parable for the red...
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Glenn Frankel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-20901-8
Pulitzer-winning journalist Frankel (High Noon) delivers a vivid chronicle about the classic 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy, the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Frankel covers the film’s main contributors: James Leo Hurlihy,
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