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Article: Sharon: A Life in Times of Turmoil.(Ariel Sharon: A Life in Times of Turmoil)(Ariel Sharon: A Life)(Book review)
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- Biography
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- January 1, 2007
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Sharon, Ariel Sharon: A Life in Times of Turmoil. Freddy Eytan. Trans. Robert Davies. Plattsburgh, NY: Studio 9, 2006. 263 pp. $18.99.
Ariel Sharon: A Life. Nir Hefez and Gadi Bloom. Trans. Mitch Ginsburg. New York: Random House, 2006. 484 pp. $39.95.
"Instead of any real depth or sense of nuance, what we get in Eytan's Sharon is a shallow chronology of Israeli history, told through a focus on Sharon. Because he was so deeply connected to nearly every major event in his country's past, from its War of Independence until January of this year, the book effectively becomes a basic primer on Israeli history and Sharon's crucial role in it. As a ...