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‘This Obstinate Little Man’
Tom Segev’s biography of David Ben-Gurion depicts a man who intended to become a Zionist Lenin but ended up “an Israeli King Lear.”
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
by Tom Segev, translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman
November 4, 2021 issue