The Best Kind of American

By Kim Ghattas

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

In The Best Kind of American, journalist Kim Ghattas tells the story of Malcolm Kerr, the American scholar who became president of the American University of Beirut and was assassinated on campus in 1984. Ghattas, who grew up in Beirut during the civil war, follows Kerr's family ties to Lebanon and his career as a scholar of the Arab world. She uses his life and death to trace the history of modern Lebanon and America's changing role in the Middle East.

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