My life golda meir autobiography sample

1973 autobiography of Golda Meir

My Life is the autobiography of the first female Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir. The book was first published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson with the title A Land of our own^[1] and later by G.

P. Putnam's Sons in 1975.^[2][3] The first German translation was published 1973 by the Scherz Verlag in Bern.^[4]

Reception

The book became a New York Timesbest-seller.^[5] Its title is a double-entendre; It refers to both a life story and a well-known Jewish term of endearment.

The book was well received by Kirkus Reviews who described the book as "both frank and very revealing of her personality and goals.

My life golda meir autobiography sample

Her total lack of pretense is especially winning. Meir's practical idealism can be seen in efforts as diverse as the beautification of kibbutzim and her strong advocacy of unemployment benefits. The work that 'most concerned and interested me,' she writes, was '