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Title: riddled with errors and specious parallels
Review: Reading other reviewers' positive words on this page, you would never know that Rose's book is riddled with errors of fact, despite her almost total dependence on secondary sources. But a discerning reader might wonder at the facile slippage between person and movement (as she does with the life and family of Theodor Herzl in her psychoanalytical outlook) or at the extrapolation of a full blown theory from interviews with a few fanatic settlers. How she manages to get Shabtai Zvi as the remote founder of her version of 'apocalyptic' Zionism (oops, messianism) is likewise unconvincing. Rose is a talented professor of English; she should stick to her last.
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