The other day, I was prowling through Dauphine Street Books—a charming French Quarter bookshop, which is not on Dauphine Street—when I came across a faded volume called Personal History by a man named Vincent Sheean. His name was familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Then I remembered that Noam Chomsky and I had briefly quoted him in The Myth of American Idealism, because he was a journalist who had visited Palestine in the 1920s. But the quote had come from secondary sources, so I’d never seen his memoir itself. I snapped it up, wondering if there might be more interesting material on Palestine in the years before Israel’s establishment. I was not disappointed.

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