Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu /

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Author / Creator:Pfeffer, Anshel, author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York, NY : Basic Books, 2018.
©2018
Description:viii, 423 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11592825
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ISBN:9780465097821
0465097820
9780465097838
0465097839
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Presents a candid account of the prime minister's rise to power, focusing on his consolidation of Zionist fringe politics to gain a long-lasting foothold in Israeli government and examining his enduring influence on the region. --
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Netanyahu's Israel
  • Part 1. Frustrated Lovers of Zion: 1879-1948
  • 1. An Orator of the Highest Grace
  • 2. Propaganda, Propaganda, and Propaganda
  • 3. On the Sidelines of History
  • 4. The End of the Great Zionist Dream
  • Part 2. Outsiders in the New State: 1949-1976
  • 5. Life Within Sharp Borders
  • 6. A Terrible Dislocation
  • 7. American Ben, Israeli Bibi
  • 8. You Have to Kill Arabs
  • 9. I've Reached My Target
  • 10. Trying to Save the State
  • Part 3. Breaking the Elite: 1976-1996
  • 11. Stop the World!
  • 12. Why Aren't You in Uniform?
  • 13. Prime Minister in Ten Years' Time
  • 14. If He Had a Sense of Humor, He'd Be a 10
  • 15. Prime Minister? Of Course Not
  • 16. A Crime Unprecedented in the History of Democracy
  • 17. A Political Failure?
  • 18. Rabin Is "Not a Traitor"
  • 19. Good for the Jews
  • Part 4. "Israel's Serial Bungler": 1996-2009
  • 20. The Bedrock of Our Existence
  • 21. Dragged to Wye
  • 22. They. Are. Afraid.
  • 23. A Concerned Citizen
  • 24. My Own Media
  • 25. Threats Are What Work
  • Part 5. Stuck on Top: 2009-2018
  • 26. A New Pragmatic Bibi?
  • 27. Your Father Wrote History. You Are Making History.
  • 28. The Arab Voters Are Moving in Droves
  • 29. A Bad Mistake of Historic Proportions
  • 30. Nothing Will Happen, Because Nothing Happened
  • Epilogue: Netanyahu's Israel at Seventy
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Sources
  • Notes
  • Index