Dore Gold, the bestselling author of Hatred’s Kingdom, served as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 through 1999 and has been a diplomatic envoy to numerous international leaders. Ambassador Gold, who earned his Ph.D. in international relations and Middle East studies from Columbia University, has written many articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and the Daily Telegraph. He and his family live in Jerusalem, where he runs the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. From the Hardcover edition.James Lileks is a syndicated columnist for Newhouse News Service. He comments weekly on BBC Radio's "American Food Trends".… He lives in Minneapolis.Reinhard Mohn is the great-great-grandson of Carl Bertelsmann, the founder of the Bertelsmann publishing house. Over the course of forty years Mohn built Bertelsmann into an international media conglomerate that includes magazine, book, & music publishing houses. He is currently chairman of the board of the Bertelsmann Foundation.