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Personal Witness; Israel Through My Eyes
by Eban, Abba
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0399135898
- ISBN 13
- 9780399135897
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: First Edition. First Printing, 1992. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tom Keller (photograph of the author on rear of DJ. 671, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has slight wear, soiling and sticker residue at bar code. Slightly cockes and front hing somewhat sprung. Signed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Some edge soiling. From a distinguished statesman, diplomat, scholar, and bestselling author comes an intimate portrait of the Israeli history he both witnessed and helped to forge. Eban was educated at Cambridge University. He began his governmental career in 1948 as United Nations representative for the provisional government of Israel, and became permanent representative in 1949. From 1950 to 1959 he served concurrently as the Israeli ambassador to the United States. In Israel, Eban has held many cabinet positions, including that of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the Knesset for decades. This is a passionate account of Israel's first five decades, written by one of its founding fathers. It is both an objective and subjective assessment of those history-making years. It was also the subject of a five-part PBS series. This is a political and social history at the highest level, presented without fear or favor, a candid testament written at a time when Eban was not constrained by being in office or serving as a diplomat. Eban traces Israel through all the fluctuations of its fortunes to which he was a witness and a participant: from its embattled beginnings and first struggle for international recognition, through the successive wars and diplomatic crises, to the conflicts existing at the time this work was written.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75382
- Title
- Personal Witness; Israel Through My Eyes
- Author
- Eban, Abba
- Illustrator
- Tom Keller (photograph of the author on rear of DJ
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0399135898
- ISBN 13
- 9780399135897
- Publisher
- First Edition. First Printing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Abba Eban, Israel, Middle East, Yigal Allon, Menachem Begin, David Ben-Gurion, Camp David Accords, Yitzhak Rabin, Zionism, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Levi Eshkol, Jews, Knesset, PLO, Palestine, Moshe Sharett, Six-Day War, Chaim Weizmann, Yom Kippur War
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