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Author
Publisher
Schocken Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 824 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of Golda Meir: the iron-willed leader, chain-smoking political operative, and tea-and-cake-serving grandmother who became the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most notable women of our time"--
2) Golda
Publisher
Decal Releasing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to face. Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the infighting...
3) My life
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1975
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
480 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007, ©2006
Edition
Widescreen format ; single sided.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 354 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Horrocks stars as Ros Pritchard, a middle-class wife and mother whose frustration with politics as usual sparks a political uprising when she runs for and wins the general election.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxv, 344 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of the founders of the state of Israel, Golda Meir (1898-1978) was Israel's ambassador to the USSR in 1948-49, subsequently served as Israel's Minister of Labor and Foreign Minister, and in 1969 became Israel's fourth Prime Minister. Born to poor and uneducated parents in Kiev as Golda Mabovitz and raised in Milwaukee, she settled in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1917. American Jews of an older generation cherish memories of her as an affable,...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 354 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ros Pritchard is a charming and honest woman who becomes Prime Minister. She wants to relocates Parliament to make it more accessible to the masses. She introduces "No cars Wednesday" to trackle global warming. At the same time, she juggles the needs and demands of her increasingly frustrated family, which she fears is slipping away from her. With humor and charm, she takes a bold unflinching look at the modern political process, and the toll it can...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 764 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cabinet-member and forty-year friend Jonathan Aitken discusses the importance of Thatcher's strong and sometimes difficult personality on political events and decisions and includes Aitken's witness perspective at both private and public episodes of her life.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 859 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century.
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (331 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Alex Irving, a charismatic and contradictory Indigenous woman, is thrust into the national limelight after a horrific domestic violence event, Australia's embattled Prime Minister Rachel Anderson, sees a publicity goldmine for her party. In a bold power play, she handpicks Alex for the Senate. But Alex wants to be more than just a political stunt: she wants to make a difference. So, when the Prime Minister's cynical calculations betray her, Alex...
12) Head shot
Author
Series
Marko Zorn novel volume 2
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. homicide detective Marko Zorn is investigating the murder of an actress--an old love--when he is assigned to protect the visiting prime minister of Montenegro, the beautiful Nina Voychek.
Washington, D.C. homicide detective Marko Zorn is assigned to protect the visiting prime minister of Montenegro, the beautiful Nina Voychek. Political enemies are planning her assassination, and now he, too, becomes a target. Determined to hunt...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 344 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful--and elusive--woman in the world. The Chancellor is at once a riveting political biography and an intimate human story of a complete outsider--a research chemist and pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany--who rose to become the unofficial leader of the West. Acclaimed biographer Kati Marton...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 271 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Golda Meir (1898-1978) was the first and only woman to serve as prime minister of Israel. She was born in Kiev into a childhood of poverty, hunger, and antisemitism. When she was five, her father left to find work in America, and a year later the family settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a teenager she became devoted to Labor Zionism, giving street-corner speeches, and her family's home became a destination for Zionist emissaries. Her love for Labor...
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