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Arik
  • Published: 15 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781400076987
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $39.99
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Arik

The Life of Ariel Sharon

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10 Jan 2014
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15 Nov 2014
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The first in-depth and comprehensive biography of Ariel Sharon, the most important Israeli political and military leader of the last forty years.

A commander in the Israeli Army from its inception in 1948, and a politician whose tenure bridged numerous governments, as both a general and a politician Ariel Sharon championed the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. But in his later years, as prime minister, he took a dramatic turn, and became the driving force behind Israel’s unilateral disengagement. In this first truly comprehensive biography, David Landau, the former editor-in-chief of Haaretz, paints a vivid picture of the most dramatic and imposing Israeli political and military leader of the last forty years—and takes a penetrating look at how Sharon transformed his country like no one else.
  • Published: 15 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781400076987
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $39.99
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Praise for Arik

  • "[A] fine, comprehensive and readable biography." --The New York Times Book Review
  • "A big biography worthy of its subject, an outsized figure in the history of Israel. Sharon led a long, controversial public life.... Every step was marked by controversy, and Landau's book covers all of it and then some." --The Oregonian
  • "Landau captures the combativeness and contradictions of one of the major figures in Israel's history." --The Washington Post
  • "[Landau] succeeds dutifully in bringing this multifaceted life to the page. With great research and noticeable interest, Landau depicts Ariel Sharon as a man who is more complex than any one of his multitude of titles and the subsequent criticism he endured as a public servant." --Publishers Weekly
  • "Landau brings considerable analytic gifts to bear in explaining the contradictions and vicissitudes of the complex man who evolved from brilliantly unorthodox but unruly solider, radiating controversy, recalcitrance and naked aggression, to become Israel's sober and grandfatherly prime minister.... In Landau's view, the two-state battle is not yet over, and Sharon could yet emerge the winner." --The Jerusalem Report
  • "A thorough, extremely candid description and assessment of the military and political lives of the controversial Sharon.... Splendid reporting, comprehensive research and probing analysis inform this unblinking view of a complicated man and a sanguinary geography." --Kirkus (starred review)