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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... told me shyly that he was in love with me and wanted to marry me . I explained happily and just as shyly that I loved him , too , but that I was still much too young for marriage , and we agreed that we would have to wait . In the mean ...
... told me shyly that he was in love with me and wanted to marry me . I explained happily and just as shyly that I loved him , too , but that I was still much too young for marriage , and we agreed that we would have to wait . In the mean ...
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... told Ceauşescu - and he had certainly told him some- thing - was totally meaningless , and I suspect that the reason I never heard anything more from Ceauşescu about the meeting with Sadat was that he couldn't bring himself to confess ...
... told Ceauşescu - and he had certainly told him some- thing - was totally meaningless , and I suspect that the reason I never heard anything more from Ceauşescu about the meeting with Sadat was that he couldn't bring himself to confess ...
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... told that some im- portant guests were coming , but he hadn't even been told who they were . There was also , it turned out , one newspaperman who just happened to be there and just happened to notice that the mayor's wife was holding a ...
... told that some im- portant guests were coming , but he hadn't even been told who they were . There was also , it turned out , one newspaperman who just happened to be there and just happened to notice that the mayor's wife was holding a ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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