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    Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
    Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
    Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel
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    Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

    Written by Francine Klagsbrun

    Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin

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    Golda Meir was a world figure unlike any other. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898, she immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee, where from her 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 deal-making to the cause to which she had dedicated her life-the welfare and security of the State of Israel and its inhabitants.

    As 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. Analyzing newly available documents from Israeli government archives, Francine Klagsbrun looks into whether Golda could have prevented that war and whether in its darkest days she contemplated using nuclear force. Resigning in the war's aftermath, she spent her final years keeping a hand in national affairs and bemusedly enjoying international acclaim. Klagsbrun's superbly researched and masterly recounted story of Israel's founding mother gives us a Golda for the ages.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 30, 2018
    ISBN9781977380739
    Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

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    • 5/5
      The book is very detailed and gives a wonderful picture of a fascinating woman. I feel as if I know Golda and I understand more about Israel. The narrator is also wonderful
    • 4/5
      Golda Meir served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1969-1974, and is the only woman to have held that position. Born in Kiev and raised in the United States, Meir was a visible and popular figure both with the American Jewish community and the United States government. This book is a comprehensive biography of a dynamic leader who was influential in the formation of Israel, and whose legacy is still felt today.Since I was a child when Meir held office, I knew nothing of her life history and how she rose to the highest levels of Israel’s government. My knowledge of Israel’s history was also pretty sketchy. Lioness addressed both of these gaps, helping me better appreciate the formation of the State of Israel, Israel-Arab relations from that point forward, and the key political figures involved. And of course I know a great deal more about Golda Meir, who showed herself as a leader early in life and went to Israel not to escape hardship or persecution, but because she identified so strongly with being part of the newly-forming state.But oh my, it’s a tome. I don’t usually shy away from long books, but I have my limits. The hardcover edition comes in at 848 pages, although well over 100 pages are devoted to notes and indices. I read the Kindle edition simply so I wouldn’t have to tote the book around. Even though Meir’s life is a fascinating story, the text can be dry at times. This book is best suited to someone who already has a strong interest in the subject, and will find it easier to persevere to the end.