Sandy Tolan





Sandy Tolan

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Sandy Tolan is a teacher and radio documentary producer. He is the author of two books: Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later (Free Press, 2000), about the intersection between race, sports, and American heroes; and The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2006). The Washington Post called the book “extraordinary” and selected it among their top nonfiction titles for 2006; the Christian Science Monitor wrote, “no novel could be more compelling” and proclaimed, “It will be one of the best nonfiction books you will read this year.”Sandy has reported from more than 30 countries, especially in the Middle East, Latin America, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe.
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Average rating: 3.98 · 3,220 ratings · 768 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a ...
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 3,213 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
Me and Hank: A Boy and His ...
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“The Lemon Tree
Important to read for those who care about the conflict between Palistinians and jews”
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