358 records matched your query
03138aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 08F305C888EA11E98E15CEFC96128E48 003 SILO 005 20190607010356 008 190605t20192019nyu rb 001 0deng d 020 $a 0316433101 020 $a 9780316433105 035 $a (OCoLC)1103608774 040 $a IOU $b eng $e rda $c IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 362.88 $2 23 100 1 $a Salamon, Julie, $e author. 245 10 $a Innocent bystander : $b the killing of Leon Klinghoffer / $c Julie Salamon. 246 3 $a Killing of Leon Klinghoffer 250 $a First United States edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Little, Brown and Company, $c 2019. 300 $a xi, 349 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "The definitive story of one American family at the center of a single, shocking act of international terrorism that 'manages to capture the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict'(Dan Ephron) On October 3, 1985, Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled Jewish New Yorker, and his wife boarded the Achille Lauro to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary with a Mediterranean cruise. Four days later, four Palestinian fedayeen hijacked the Italian luxury liner and took the passengers and crew hostage. Leon Klinghoffer was shot in the head, his body and wheelchair thrown overboard. His murder became a flashpoint in the intractable struggle between Israelis and Arabs and gave Americans a horrifying preview of what it means when terrorism hits home. In this richly reported book, drawing on multiple perspectives, Julie Salamon dispels the mythology that has grown around that shattering moment. What transpired on the Achille Lauro left the Klinghoffer family in the grip of irredeemable sorrow, while precipitating tragic reverberations for the wives and sons of Abu al-Abbas, the Palestinian mastermind behind the hijacking, and the family of Alex Odeh, a Palestinian-American murdered in Los Angeles in a brutal act of retaliation. Through intimate interviews with almost all living participants, including one of the hijackers, Julie Salamon brings alive the moment-by-moment saga of the hijacking and the ensuing U.S.-led international manhunt; the diplomatic wrangling between the United States, Egypt, Italy, and Israel; and the long agonizing search for justice. The book also reveals the back story of the controversial opera about the Klinghoffer tragedy that provoked a culture war. An Innocent Bystander is a masterful work of journalism that moves between the personal and the global with the pace of a geopolitical thriller and the depth of a psychological drama. Throughout lies the tension wrought by terrorism and its repercussions today." -- dust jacket flap. 600 10 $a Klinghoffer, Leon. 650 0 $a Achille Lauro Hijacking Incident, 1985. 650 0 $a Victims of terrorism. 941 $a 4 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012022609.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318013452.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20190925012811.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190607010418.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=08F305C888EA11E98E15CEFC96128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search