Books : Personal Witness: Israel through My Eyes
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by: Abba Eban
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.9404092
EAN: 9780399135897
ISBN: 0399135898
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 671
Publication Date: November 13, 1992
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Sales Rank: 1308989
Studio: Putnam Adult
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Product Description:
A companion volume to a new PBS series traces the history of Israel through its four decades of fluctuating fortunes, political turmoil, various leaders, and continuing culture. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. TV tie-in.
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Rating: - The most articulate champion of Israel
Abba Eban was Israel's most articulate and persuasive Israeli spokesman to the world. His remarkable presentation of Israel's case at the time of the Six- Day War made many friends for Israel. He was a career diplomat of enormous intelligence and skill. In this work he looks at the struggle of Israel for statehood, recognition and peace with its neighbors. He is an inside observer , and one who does not refraim from criticism where he feels it due. His great intelligence and wisdom, his understanding ... Read More
Rating: - Personal Witness revisited
After completing Paul Thompson's History of the Jews, I revisited my first reading in '95 of Personal Witness. This reading was much more meaningful in light of Thompson's outstanding work. Eban's cogent testimony of Israel's struggle for nationhood was filled with dextrous gems of awesome and often droll prose.
Eban's book also gives valuable insight into the workings of the United Nations and its genuine as opposed to perceived role in world government. His insights on the character ... Read More
Rating: - Richard A. Macales, columnist, "Mac's Facts"
Known as the man with the "golden tongue," Eban recounts his years in Washington and at the U.N. as Israel's first envoy, and later as foreign minister. As the saying goes, he has been there, seen it and met with everyone who is anyone among the world's leaders in Israel's formative years.
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