My Life.

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel": First Edition of Golda Meir's My Life; Signed by Her

My Life.

MEIR, Golda.

Item Number: 67090

Jerusalem/ Tel Aviv: Steimatsky's Agency, 1975.

First edition of Meir’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black and white photographs. Signed by Golda Meir on the half-title page. Name to the front free endpaper, names and address’ on the verso of the half-title page, near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Laid in are various clipping regarding the life of Meir. Jacket photograph by David Rubinger.

Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold such an office, she was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir "the best man in the government"; she was often portrayed as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people." My Life is "both frank and very revealing of her personality and goals. 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 'the translation of socialist principles into the down-to-earth terminology of everyday life.' Although the political events narrated are well known they are recounted with drama and spirit. Don't mistake this for just chicken soup with riposte-noodles: it's a model of its kind and a sure crowd-pleaser" (Kirkus Reviews).

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