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Logic: The Wit and Wisdom of Kinky Friedman
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Humor - General
Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780312331573
ISBN-10: 0312331576
You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him
Think
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Biography & Autobiography - Political
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781416547600
ISBN-10: 1416547606
Cowboy Logic
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Humor - Form - Essays
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780312331566
ISBN-10: 0312331568
'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out
Author: Friedman, Kinky (A)
Publisher: Harper
Category: Humor - Form - Essays
Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780060539764
ISBN-10: 0060539763
Texas Hold 'em
Author: Friedman, Kinky (A)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Humor - General
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780312331542
ISBN-10: 0312331541
Texas Hold 'Em
Author: Friedman, Kinky
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Humor - Topic - Adult
Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780312331559
ISBN-10: 031233155X |
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the stamina of an
elderly leader, and transformed Middle Eastern politics for decades to
follow.
A blend of Emma Goldman and Martin Luther King Jr. in the guise of a
cookie-serving grandmother, Meir was a tough-as-nails politician who
issued the first prescient warnings about the rise of international
terrorism, out-maneuvered Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger at their
own game of realpolitik, and led Israel through a bloody war even as
she eloquently pleaded for peace. A prodigious fundraiser and
persuasive international voice, Golda carried the nation through its
most perilous hours while she herself battled cancer.
In this masterful biography, critically acclaimed author and Pulitzer
Prize–nominated journalist Elinor Burkett looks beyond Meir's
well-known accomplishments to the complex motivations and ideals,
personal victories and disappointments, of her charismatic public
persona. Beginning with Meir's childhood in virulently anti-Semitic
Russia and her family's subsequent relocation to the United States,
Burkett places Meir within the framework of the American immigrant
experience, the Holocaust, and the single-mindedness of a generation
that carved a nation out of its own nightmares and dreams. She paints
a vivid portrait of a legendary woman defined by contradictions: an
iron resolve coupled with magnetic charm, an utter ordinariness of
appearance matched to extraordinary achievements, a kindly demeanor
that disguised a stunning hard-heartedness, and a complete dedication
to her country that often overwhelmed her personal relationships.
To produce this definitive account of Meir's life, Burkett mined
historical records never before examined by any researcher, and
interviewed members of Meir's inner circle, many going on record for
the first time. The result is an astounding portrait of one of the
most commanding political presences of the twentieth century—a woman
whose uncompromising commitment to the creation and preservation of a
Jewish state fueled and framed the ideological conflicts that still
define Middle Eastern relations today. |
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