Lioness : Golda Meir and the nation of Israel / Francine Klagsbrun.

• Introduction: "Call me Golda" -- Part one. Stubborn roots -- The carpenter's daughter -- An American girl -- "Dearest Gogo" -- the path to Palestine -- Part two. Ascent -- "New Jews" -- The dark years -- A star is born -- Pioneer woman -- Black clouds rising -- "And the heart breaking" -- Life and death -- Ein Breira -- no alternative -- "Nevertheless: a woman" -- 1947: the turning point -- "The time is now" -- Part three. Madam Minister -- Moscow -- "Either immigrants or shoes" -- The politician -- "Golda Meir" -- Conflict and charisma -- "A mutual distancing" -- Seat of power -- Part four. Premier -- The chosen -- A different kind of war -- "What has happened to us?" -- Terror, territories, and the Palestinian question -- Premier Meir and President Sadat -- "I will never again be the person I was" -- An "irrevocable" decision -- "My only fear is to live too long" -- Endings: "I've always been a realist.". 

• "The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most notable women of our time"-- 

Ämnesord

Women prime ministers  -- Israel -- Biography. (LCSH)

Women prime ministers.  (fast)

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State.  (bisacsh)

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.  (bisacsh)

HISTORY / Middle East / Israel.  (bisacsh)

Israel.  (fast)

Genre

Biographies.  (lcgft)

Personnamn

Meir, Golda, 1898-1978.

Meir, Golda, 1898-1978.

Klassifikation

DS126.6.M42 (LCC)

956.9405/3092B (DDC)

Koafi (kssb/8 (machine generated))