RaveThe Washington Post... magisteria ... Any careful reader will come away from this book armed with facts, history and context, and with a clarity absent from most discussions of the subject...this volume is more than timely — it is necessary ... Right up to today, Mead’s keen eye discerns strategies and patterns that may have gone unnoticed ... Mead’s assessment of the complicated entanglement of Jews, Israel and the United States testifies powerfully to the historian Marcus’s admonition about the imperative to understand the past to ensure the future. I suspect that Mead wrote this book to guide us there. The Arc of a Covenant, drawing from the past to speak to today, merits a wide audience.
Dara Horn
RaveThe Washington PostSome essay collections are just compilations, an opportunity for readers to hold in one hand articles by favorite authors. Less often a compilation becomes a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. This is one of those unexpected, memorable books ... Horn...is a master at making connections to the Jewish past ... She ends this riveting, gorgeously written book as Jews have done across the millennia: by engaging the past, embracing the present and facing toward the future.
