"Shimon Peres – A Biography " (Hebrew 2006, English 2007)

 

Twice Israel's prime minister, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, bold leader in a

war-torn region, Shimon Peres is one of the great statesmen of the modern world.

Peres is also a fascinating, complex man – a brilliant intellectual who is entirely at

home in the corridors of power, an individual revered by the world and yet highly

controversial in his own country, at once a hero and a figure of tragedy.

In this book, Bar-Zohar takes the full measure of a towering, enigmatic leader.

In a half-century of leadership, Peres has worked beside – or fought against – such

giants as Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon, and tragically,

Rabin, who was slain at the rally that marked his reconciliation with Peres. Still powerful

In his eighties, Peres stands as a true hero, a visionary who embodies the history of his

nation. In this stunning, courageously frank biography, Michael Bar-Zohar gives an eminent

man his due.