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Sharon

The Life of a Leader

by Gilad Sharon
Rich Topol
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Drawn from extensive personal archives and filled withstartling revelations, the definitive biography of Ariel Sharon illuminates hislife and work from the penetrating perspective of his youngest son, Gilad Sharon—one of his father's closest confidants.Readers of George W. Bush's Decision Points, Tony Blair's A Journey,Yitzhak Rabin's The Rabin Memoirs, and Moshe Dayan's Story of My Life,as well as Benjamin Netanyahu's A Durable Peace, will be fascinated by Gilad Sharon's piercing, authoritative, and intimateportrait of Ariel Sharon the Prime Minister, the father, and the military hero,in a narrative that traces his evolution into a powerful and influential forceat the center of Middle Eastern and world politics.

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  • Release date

    October 25, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780062099778
      • File size: 532704 KB
      • Duration: 18:29:47

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      If you didn't know that this biography of Israeli general and political leader Ariel Sharon is read by Rich Topol, you'd swear it's Sharon's son, Gilad Sharon, doing the narration. The book is written in the first person and draws heavily on the elder Sharon's personal letters and documents. Topol offers a solid, even intimate, reading. When he says "I"--whether it's the author's spoken words or a quotation from a letter--the listener will get the feeling it is Sharon the younger or elder who is speaking. Bringing to life a book that portrays the man in a personal way, Topol's conversational tone carries the listener along. He differentiates mood by raising his pitch slightly during light family-oriented passages and slowing the pace down significantly--almost to the extent of pausing between each word--during especially emotional ones, such as when the author writes about terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens. R.C.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 31, 2011
      Israeli columnist Sharon draws on a unique set of family and documentary sources (including personal diaries) to tell the story of his father, one of Israel's great political and military leaders. Born in 1928 and struck down in early 2006 while working on Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, Sharon's life and battles paralleled those of his country. He was close to David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister, who supported his military career in the 1950s, and to the eventual Oslo accord peace-maker Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister after the 1973 war, under whom Sharon served as security adviser. In 1977, he helped found the Likud Party to break the political mold of Israeli politics, and was prepared to launch such an effort again in 2006 with Kadima. His blunt views of the Israeli political and military leaders with whom he served make for surprising reading, and his disagreements with Israel's political command receive attention here. The biography vividly delineates the qualities a leader needs to excel today.

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