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Sharon

Israel's Warrior-Politician

Sharon( )
Author: Zetouni, Sigalit
Miller, Jordan
Miller, Anita
ISBN:978-0-89733-496-9
Publication Date:Aug 2005
Publisher:Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $32.50
Book Description:

Ariel Sharon, Israel's former Prime Minister, was perhaps one of the most controversial public figures in the Mideast. He was born in 1928 in a moshav--an agricultural community in which, unlike a kibbutz, residents own their own property--and was raised by parents who were not only ardent Zionists but also rugged individualists. His father especially was contemptuous of socialism and believed in individual enterprise, raising his son to be self-reliant and physically...
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Book Details
Pages:613
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Political
Political Science / World / Middle Eastern
Biography & Autobiography / Arab & Middle Eastern
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.6 Inches
Book Weight:2.3 Pounds
Author Biography
Zetouni, Sigalit (Author)
Anita Miller received a Ph.D. in English literature from Northwestern University. Her dissertation, Arnold Bennett: An Annotated Bibliography, 1887-1932, was published in 1977. She taught at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin. In 1976, she and her husband Jordan Miller founded Academy Press. In the early 1980s, they changed the name to Academy Chicago Publishers. In 2014, they sold the company to Chicago Review Press.

She edited numerous books including Peculiar People: The Story of My Life by Augustus Hare, The Complete Transcripts of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Hearings: October 11, 12, 13, 1991, and Four Classic Ghostly Tales. She also wrote several books including Uncollecting Cheever: The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers, Tea and Antipathy: An American Family in Swinging London, and Sharon: Israel's Warrior-Politician. She translated Hella S. Haasse's novel In a Dark Wood Wandering from the Dutch. In 1996, she received the Women in Publishing's Pandora Award. She died on August 4, 2018 at the age of 91.

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