{"product_id":"lioness-golda-meir-and-the-nation-of-israel-paperback","title":"Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancine Klagsbrun\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award\/Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year, this is the definitive biography of the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in tsarist Russia in 1898. Golda Meir immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee. where from the earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizational skills that would eventually catapult her into the inner circles of Israel's founding generation. Moving to mandatory Palestine in 1921 with her husband, the passionate socialist joined a kibbutz but soon left and was hired at a public works office by the man who would become the great love of her life. A series of public service jobs brought her to the attention of David Ben-Gurion, and her political career took off. Fund-raising in America in 1948, secretly meeting in Amman with King Abdullah right before Israel's declaration of independence, mobbed by thousands of Jews in a Moscow synagogue in 1948 as Israel's first representative to the USSR, serving as minister of labor and foreign minister in the 1950s and 1960s, Golda brought fiery oratory, plainspoken appeals, and shrewd-making to the cause to which she had dedicated her life--the welfare and security of the State of Israel and its people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs prime minister, Golda negotiated arms agreements with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and had dozens of clandestine meetings with Jordan's King Hussein in the unsuccessful pursuit of a land-for-peace agreement with Israel's neighbors. But her time in office ended in tragedy, when Israel was caught off guard by Egypt and Syria's surprise attack on Yom Kippur in 1973. Resigning in the war's aftermath, Golda spent her final years keeping a hand in national affairs and bemusedly enjoying international acclaim. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrancine Klagsbrun's superbly researched and masterly recounted story of Israel's founding mother gives us a Golda for the ages.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRANCINE KLAGSBRUN\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Commandment: Remember the Sabbath Day \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Married People: Staying Together in the Age of Divorce. Lioness \u003c\/i\u003ereceived the 2017 National Jewish Book Award\/Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year. Klagsbrun was also the editor of the best-selling \u003ci\u003eFree to Be . . . You and Me\u003c\/i\u003e and is a regular columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Week, \u003c\/i\u003e a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eLilith, \u003c\/i\u003e and on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eHadassah\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. Her writing has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Ms. Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 864\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757624951072,"sku":"9780805211931","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a43789fb6a2078a8d8a3acf60c451936.webp?v=1780107125","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lioness-golda-meir-and-the-nation-of-israel-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}