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A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion / Tom Segev ; translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman.
Van Pelt Library DS125.3.B37 S4413 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Segev, Tom, 1945- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Medinah be-khol meḥir. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973.
- Ben-Gurion, David.
- Prime ministers--Israel--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- Israel.
- Israel--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 804 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
- Summary:
- The definitive and newsworthy biography of Israel's founder and longest-serving prime minister.
- Contents:
- The road to power
- The vow
- Scroll of fire
- Birds
- Foreign labor
- Sejera
- Deportation
- New world
- Authority
- Scandals
- Unification
- Conversations
- Winds of war
- Zionist alertness
- Holocaust and scism
- The limits of power
- Maps
- Partition
- War
- New israelis
- Anxieties
- The nasty business
- The second round
- Yes to the old man
- The lavon affair
- Twilight
- Another kind of Jew.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Hebrew in 2018 by Keter Books, Israel."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 753-770) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374112646
- 0374112649
- OCLC:
- 1089258254
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