My LifeThis is Golda Meir's long-awaited personal and moving story of her life. For the first time, we experience through her own words how it happened that this amazing woman, born in Russia and brought up in Milwaukee, became the prime minister of Israel and one of the political giants of our time without ever losing the warmth and informality for which she is justly celebrated. She herself describes her career as Israel's labor minister, foreign minister, and finally prime minister, against the background of her conflicting roles as a wife and as a mother. This personal story of her own life inevitably reflects also the story of Israel itself -- and of its struggle to survive -- culminating in what was for Golda Meir the most desperate period of all, the terrible days of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. - Jacket flap. |
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Page 49
... took me to lectures on literature , history and philosophy . To this day I associ- ate certain pieces of music with the clear , dry mountain air of Denver and the wonderful parks in which Morris and I walked ev- ery Sunday in the spring ...
... took me to lectures on literature , history and philosophy . To this day I associ- ate certain pieces of music with the clear , dry mountain air of Denver and the wonderful parks in which Morris and I walked ev- ery Sunday in the spring ...
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... took advantage of his forbearance . Whenever I was out of town , I wrote long letters to him , but they tended to be more about the meeting I had just addressed or the one I was about to address , the situation in Palestine or the ...
... took advantage of his forbearance . Whenever I was out of town , I wrote long letters to him , but they tended to be more about the meeting I had just addressed or the one I was about to address , the situation in Palestine or the ...
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... took it very well , although he doesn't work easily with people and is used to getting his own way . In the end we became good friends , and there was not a single occasion when I could complain of any disloyalty on his part . Not once ...
... took it very well , although he doesn't work easily with people and is used to getting his own way . In the end we became good friends , and there was not a single occasion when I could complain of any disloyalty on his part . Not once ...
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