Golda Meir : a political biography /

Golda Meir : a political biography /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Medzini, Meron, author.
Uniform title:	Yehudiyah ha-geʼah. English
Imprint:	Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter, 2017.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 720 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Meir, Golda, -- 1898-1978. Meir, Golda, -- 1898-1978. Prime ministers -- Israel -- Biography. Politics and government. Prime ministers. Israel -- Politics and government. Israel. Biographies. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11660289
Related Items:	Translation of: Goldah.

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ISBN:	9783110489798 3110489791 9783110492507 3110492504 9783110487343 3110487349
Notes:	Translation of: Goldah : biyografyah poliṭit. Tel-Aviv : Yediʻot aḥaronot : Sifre ḥemed, ©2008. Includes bibliographical references and index. Open Access Print resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 23, 2017).
Summary:	For five decades Golda Meir was at the center of the political arena in Israel and left her mark on the development of the Yishuv and the state. She was a unique woman, great leader, with a magnetic personality, a highly complex individual. She held some of the most important positions that her party and the State could bestow. She fulfilled most of them with talent and dignity. She failed in the top job - that of Prime Minister. This biography traces her origins, her American roots, her immediate family, her failed marriage, her rise in the party, the trade union movement, her massive and enduring achievements as Secretary of Labor and Housing, her ten year stint as foreign minister and finally the reasons that led to her failure as prime minister. She was a very good tactician, far less a strategist. She was a major builder of modern Israel whose influence on that country, on Israel-American relations and on Jewish history was evident primarily from 1969 to 1974.
Other form:	Print version: Medzini, Meron. Yehudiyah ha-geʼah. English. Golda Meir. Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter, 2017 9783110487343

Table of Contents:

Origins (1898-1906)
Milwaukee (1906-1921)
Merhavia (1921-1925)
Jerusalem (1925-1928)
Apprenticeship (1928-1939)
War and holocaust (1939-1945)
Towards independence (1945-1948)
My friends, we are at war (1947-1948)
Interlude in Moscow (1948-1949)
The seven good years (1949-1956)
Ben-Gurion commands (1953-1956)
The Sinai war (1956-1957)
Madam Foreign Minister (1957-1965)
Ben-Gurion must go (1956-1966)
The secretary general (1966-1968)
Madam Prime Minister (1969-1973)
Into the abyss (1973)
I will never forgive myself (1973)
Salvage (1973-1974)
Everything is sinking (1974-1978)
Our Golda is no more (1978).