To Hell in a Handbasket

Carter, Obama, and the ‘Arab Spring’

by Ruthie Blum

RVP, 212pp., $17.95

Ruthie Blum, former columnist and senior editor at the Jerusalem Post, is not optimistic about the Arab Spring and what it means for American interests and allies in the Middle East, Arabs as well as Israelis. Nor does she believe that many Americans or our elected officials understand the consequences of the struggle, consequences that may in turn affect our way of life. In To Hell in a Handbasket, a well-reported and researched and elegantly written book, Blum argues that the outcome of these recent political upheavals may prove “to be more like that of the Iranian Revolution than the American one.”