Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0805211934 ISBN13: 9780805211931 Release Date: April 2019 Publisher: Schocken Books Inc Length: 864 Pages Weight: 0.05 lbs. Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1" "Golda Meir--immigrant, Zionist, feminist, and wartime prime minister of Israel--claimed far more than one woman's share of history. In Lioness, Francine Klagsbrun superbly captures Golda's courage and unrelenting commitment to the founding and survival of a Jewish state."--John A. Farrell, author of Richard Nixon: The Life Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award/Everett Family Foundation Book of the Year, this is the definitive biography of the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel. Born in tsarist Russia in 1898. Golda Meir immigrated to America in 1906 and grew up in Milwaukee. where from the earliest years she displayed the political consciousness and organizati