The definitive biography of Israel's founder by one of Israel's most celebrated historians.
Tom Segev is one of Israel's most celebrated historians. His works include The Seventh Million; 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East; Simon Wiesenthal; and One Palestine, Complete, which was chosen as one of the best ten books of 2000 by the New York Times.
Tom Segev's meticulously researched and most elegantly written new
biography of David Ben-Gurion is a must for anybody interested in
both the glorious and the dark pages of the history of Zionism and
Israel, as reflected throughout the life and times of the Jewish
State's most important founding father
*Saul Friedländer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Nazi Germany
and the Jews and Where Memory Leads*
In the course of six years of research, Segev [...] discovered a
leader fraught with dramatic contrasts... The author has come up
with significant historical revelations'
*Ofer Aderet, Haaretz*
Fascinating... A masterly portrait of a titanic yet unfulfilled
man... This is a gripping study of power, and the loneliness of
power'
*Economist*
[A] carefully researched and nonjudgemental biography... Tom
Segev's A State at Any Cost aptly summarizes the lodestar of
Ben-Gurion's life'
*Avraham Avi-hai, Jerusalem Post*
Deserves to be the definitive biography of Ben-Gurion. It is the
story of a hard-headed, pragmatic and ruthless politician, told
without sentimentality or nostalgia. It also serves as a key to
understanding today's Israel, which is still very much Ben-Gurion's
creation
*The Times*
Tom Segev has completed a monumental task. The work includes the
research of a true detective
*Avner Cohen, author of Israel and the Bomb*
[A] body of work that has no equal either for the brilliance of his
storytelling or the ironies of his analysis
*London Review of Books*
Without doubt one of the best biographies to have been written
about David Ben-Gurion... Segev manages to hold the reader's
attention'
*Literary Review*
The book offers an appreciation of the life of an extraordinary man
and an understanding of the values, political attitudes and the
very concept of the Zionist State... For readers with an interest
in the subject, the book is worthwhile, informative and
rewarding'
*Pennant Magazine.*
Authoritative... [Segev] gives us a many-sided character, showing
Ben-Gurion's strengths and weaknesses, great moments and cruelties,
successes and failures. If you want a balanced account of what has
long been a controversial state, this is a good place to start, and
Segev is already well known for the excellence of his writing on
Israel'
*Sorted.*
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