The Accidental Empire
by Gershom Gorenberg | 
My Promised Land
by Ari Shavit | 
Right to Exist
by Yaacov Lozowick | 
The Case for Israel
by Alan Dershowitz | 
How Israel Lost
by Richard Ben Cramer |
In the Land of Israel
by Amos Oz | 
The Yellow Wind
by David Grossman | 
Israel
by Daniel Gordis | 
America the Beautiful
by Ben Carson | 
Fear
by Bob Woodward | 
Crisis of Character
by Gary J. Byrne | 
The Amateur
by Edward Klein | 
No Ordinary Time
by Doris Kearns Goodwin | 
Grant
by Ron Chernow | 
East West Street
by Philippe Sands | 
Leadership
by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Destiny and Power
by Jon Meacham | 
Three Days in Moscow
by Bret Baier | 
The Gatekeepers
by Chris Whipple |
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
by Simon Sebag Montefiore |
This intimate narrative takes the reader behind the scenes into the chambers of Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzchak Rabin, and Menachem Begin on whose personal staffs the author served. Employing time-honored literary devices of scene-setting, impressionistic description, and characterization, he restores to life episodes of war and peace as these amazing individuals, early leaders of Israel, grappled with one another and with the life-and-death decisions they were often called upon to make. In the author's eyes, Menachem Begin emerges as most exceptional, and much of the book is devoted to him. Based largely on personal notes, as well as on actual transcripts and correspondence, some of which are revealed here for the first time, the narrative reenacts how each of the leaders responded under conditions of acute stress - be it terror or war- and how their respective relationships unfolded with Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter.