Jews and American Public Life

<p>Over a career spanning forty years David G. Dalin has written extensively about the role of American Jews in public life from the nation's founding to presidential appointments of Jews to lobbying for the welfare of Jews abroad to Jewish prominence in government philanthropy intellectual life and sports and their one-time prominence in the Republican Party. His work on the separation of Church and State and a prescient 1980 essay about the limits of free speech and the goal of Neo-Nazis to stage a march in Skokie Illinois are especially noteworthy. Here for the first time are a collection of sixteen of his essays which portray American Jews who have left their mark on American public life and politics.</p>