“[Salamon’s] book’s greatest contribution is the way that it humanizes the political ordeal…her book offers valuable insight. Toward the end of her account, she quotes Peter Sellars, the director of John Adams’s opera “The Death of Klinghoffer.” He said he was drawn to the story of the “strange floating vessel that contained this explosive conflict,” saying it was a metaphor for how “we’re all on one planet and all in one boat.” By showing the common humanity of the individuals on the vessel, whether victims, perpetrators or administration officials, she proves that Sellars’s line … is true.”—The New York Times Book Review