About the Author

Robert Slater was born in New York City on October 1, 1943, and grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. He graduated from Columbia High School in 1962 and graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, where he majored in political science. He received a masters of science degree in international relations from the London School of Economics in 1967. Slater was Yitzhak Rabin's official biographer, from his first term as prime minister of Israel. Slater was a longtime journalist, working for years as the Times correspondent in Israel and later as a reporter for United Press International (UPI). Slater also wrote biographies about some of the giants of politics and business, including Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, Jack Welch, and George Soros.