Abstract
Barbara Victor is a journalist and a frequent lecturer on women's issues and the Middle East. She worked for CBS television for fifteen years, where she covered the Middle East. Her books include Terrorism, an account of the Lebanon war from 1975 to 1982, A voice of reason: Hasnan Ashrawi and Peace in the Middle East, a biography of Hanan Ashrawi, which was nominated for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize, Getting away with murder, a study of domestic violence in the United States and also Le Matignon de Jospin, an inside look at the workings of the French government. In her book, she tries to define Evangelical Christians, explaining how different they are from the mainstream Protestant or Catholic population of the United States, how absolute they are in their beliefs and how determined they are to implement those beliefs throughout the United States and the world.
