Description
Book SynopsisAvi Shilon is Visiting Scholar and Israel Institute Fellow at the Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University (NYU) in the U.S. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow at The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He has also been a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University, China. He has published the books
Ben-Gurion: His Later Years in the Political Wilderness (2016)
and
Menachem Begin: A Life (2012) as well as articles in Middle Eastern Studies, The Jewish Quarterly Review and Middle East Journal. Shilon also writes for the Ha'aretz newspaper.
Trade ReviewWell-researched and insightful book … absorbing and well-argued. * Fathom *
Shilon has provided readers with another significant and illuminating political biography, following upon those he wrote about David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin. Shilon leaves us eagerly awaiting his next project. * Middle East Journal *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Chapter 1: A Broken Dream Chapter 2: First Political Steps Chapter 3: Statecraft and Politics Chapter 4: From Opposition to Unity Chapter 5: In the Eye of the Storm Part 2 Chapter 6: The Small-Big Upheaval: From Opposition to Oslo Chapter 7: Peace Contends with Reality Chapter 8: After Rabin’s Murder Chapter 9: The End of the Conflict and its Continuation Chapter 10: New Paths: Geneva, Meretz, Beilink Chapter 11: Epilogue to Peace Chapter 12: Afterword Bibliography Notes
