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Ben-Gurion : father of modern Israel / Anita Shapira ; translated from the Hebrew by Anthony Berris.

by Shapira, Anita.

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Yale University Press, [2014]

956.94052 B456s

Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973.

Prime ministers -- Israel -- Biography.

Zionists -- Palestine -- Biography.

Israel -- Politics and government -- 1948-1967.

Israel -- History -- 1948-1967.

Middle East -- History -- 20th century.

Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)

9780300180459 (hc.)

0300180454 (hc.)

ix, 273 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index.

Plonsk -- I found the homeland landscape -- Exile and return -- Labor leader -- From labor leader to national leader -- Days of hope, days of despair -- On the verge of statehood -- We hereby declare ... -- Helmsman of the state -- Ben-Gurion against Ben-Gurion -- Decline.

The complex man who would become the face of the new Jewish nation. Shapira tells the Ben-Gurion story anew, focusing especially on the period after 1948, during the first years of statehood. The author provides fascinating and original insights into his personal qualities and those that defined his political leadership. As Shapira writes, "Ben-Gurion liked to argue that history is made by the masses, not individuals. But just as Lenin brought the Bolshevik Revolution into the world and Churchill delivered a fighting Britain, so with Ben-Gurion and the Jewish state. He knew how to create and exploit the circumstances that made its birth possible." Shapira's portrait reveals the flesh-and-blood man who more than anyone else realized the Israeli state.

Berris, Anthony.

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