An American Jew: A Writer Confronts His Own Exile and Identity

Deeply personal and profoundly moving...An American Jew has filled me with the love and pride for my brothers and sisters the Children of Israel.-- Randall Wallace author of BRAVEHEART and director of HEAVEN IS FOR REALSteven Pressfield grew up assuming he was like every other kid in his red-white-and-blue Sunday-School attending Christmas-tree decorating suburb. Then at age thirteen he found out he was in fact not a member of that tribe but of a very different one. Five decades later in November 2011 Pressfield boarded an El Al jet bound for Israel. At long last hed committed to researching and writing THE LIONS GATE a book that would finally wrestle with the riddle of his own identity. What he learned as an artist and a man in the three years it took to complete the work is the subject of AN AMERICAN JEW an on-the-front-lines account of the creative process...in all its wonderfully confounding forms.