Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu / Anshel Pfeffer.
By: Pfeffer, Anshel [author.]
.Publisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2018Description: viii, 423 pages : black and white illustrations.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849049887.Other title: The turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu [Portion of title].Subject(s): Netanyahu, Binyamin | Prime ministers -- Israel -- Biography | Israel -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 920 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 920 NET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 015747 |
t.p. verso -- "First published in the United States by Basic Books."
Part one: Frustrated lovers of Zion: 1879-1948 -- Part two: Outsiders in the new state: 1949-1976 -- Part three: Breaking up the elite: 1976-1996 -- Part four: "Israel's serial bungler": 1996-2009 -- Part five: Stuck on top: 2009-2018.
"For many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment; yet he continues to dominate Israeli public life. How can we explain his rise, his hold on Israeli politics, and his outsized role on the world’s stage?
In Bibi, Anshel Pfeffer reveals the formative influence of Netanyahu’s father and grandfather, who bequeathed to him a once-marginal brand of Zionism combining Jewish nationalism with religious traditionalism. In the Zionist enterprise, Netanyahu embodies the triumph of the underdogs over the secular liberals who founded the nation.
Netanyahu’s Israel is a hybrid of ancient phobia and high-tech hope; of tribalism and globalism — just like the man himself. We cannot understand Israel today without first understanding the man who leads it."-- Taken from dust jacket.