Bibi The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu Product DescriptionFor 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.Review'Anyone who seeks to understand Netanyahu's mercurial rise and the way it has shaped modern Israel would do well to read this insightful biography by Anshel Pfeffer . . . a sober and erudite profile of a man who has made himself necessary to his country through sheer force of will.' -- The Sunday Times'Riveting and passionately critical. . . a must-read for everyone who is interested in the undercurrents of today's Israeli society.' -- The Economist'This timely book . . . is essential -- understand Bibi and you understand the times and how they came to be the times . . . superb.' -- The Times 'Anshel Pfeffer's biography is superbly timed . . . insightful and readable. . . Bibi, obsessed by hostile 'left-wing' media, complained pre-emptively that this biography would be a cartoon. It is not: It fleshes out a superficially familiar and invariably quotable figure with a wealth of background information and analysis that provide necessary and, of course, often highly critical context.' -- New York Times 'This excellent biography... is a dark record of the astute helmsman of Israel's recent history.' -- The Times Literary Supplement 'A work of searing insight that persuades with research rather than rhetoric... Bibi is biography at its most honest, most powerful. --The Spectator'In Pfeffer's skilled hands, a brisk, engaging history of Netanyahu . . . turns into a mirror for the country itself.' -- Financial Times'A detailed, revealing, and shrewd biography that is packed with fascinating insights . . . taking full advantage of the author's vantage point as a bilingual journalist, alive to the subtleties of both Israeli and diaspora Jewish life, it is for now the definitive portrait of Netanyahu.' -- New York Review of Books'Excellent.' -- Jewish Quarterly'This is a fascinating . . . account of Benjamin Netanyahu's remarkable political longevity. . . superb.'-- Australian Review of Books'An insightful examination of the most dominant figure in recent Israeli political history . . . both timely and much welcomed. . . . The picture Pfeffer paints of both Bibi and the Netanyahu family is a fascinating one, full of contradictions and paradoxes.' --Conatus News'Anshel Pfeffer has succeeded in the impossible. This is a page-turning biography of Benjamin Netanyahu that is scrupulously fair to his formidable political strengths yet unsparing of his multitude of flaws. His book has revelations in every chapter -- especially regarding the formative part played by his father, his American years and his membership of an elite army corps. Most of all, perhaps, it's a vivid portrait of Israeli politics over the seventy years of its existence -- all it has been and everything it is now.'--Simon Schama, author of Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900'Certain to elicit both consternation and praise, Anshel Pfeffer's book is a fascinating exploration of the complex ideological and familial foundations that continue to shape the thinking and governing of the man who may soon become Israel's longest serving Prime Minster. This is a book that will lead both Bibi's friends as well as his foes to see him a new - and infinitely more Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. 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