Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel - Brossura

Ephron, Dan

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ISBN 10: 0393353249 ISBN 13: 9780393353242

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2016

Riassunto

Traces the parallel stories of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, to explore the assassination's fundamental and wrenching impact on the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

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Recensione:

"Stunning...a chilling reminder that sometimes an assassin's bullet really can alter the course of history. By unearthing previously confidential police and court records, Ephron gives us the definitive account of a fatal turning point for Israel. Killing a King is thorough, even-handed, and absolutely authoritative."

-- Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, and author of The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames

"The killing of Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish fanatic helped derail the promising but fragile Middle East peace process and plunged Israelis and Palestinians into a nightmarish era of political violence and recrimination that haunts them still. In Killing a King Ephron digs up important details that give new understanding to those terrible events and their enduring impact. His authoritative account is both a sharply etched political thriller and a meditation on all that has gone wrong in the Promised Land."

-- Glenn Frankel, former Jerusalem bureau chief for the Washington Post and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting

"With remarkable reporting, Dan Ephron has written an epic story, honestly and skillfully. Killing a King is not just about Israel's past. It's also an important read for anyone who wishes to truly understand the country's disturbing present and unsettling future."

--Etgar Keret, author of The Seven Good Years: A Memoir

"Exceptional....an electrifying political narrative twinned with an old-fashioned crime story--of the sort that ought to be taught in journalism schools for its restraint, pacing and expert creation of suspense....The book is a Greek tragedy told in split screen, a frame-for-frame chronicle of a deplorable death foretold."

-- The New York Times

"...enthralling...One of the strengths of Ephron's book is its ability to shed light, in almost a thriller-like style, on the two parallel existences of Rabin and the people around him on the one hand and the assassin and his collaborators on the other...[Killing a King] documents this tragic sequence of events vividly."

--The Royal Institute of International Affairs

"a riveting new book" -- The Guardian "vividly written and sharply insightful"

--Literary Review

"...compelling..."

--Jewish News

"...a narrative that is carefully reported, clearly presented and gripping."

--The Washington Post, Notable Nonfiction of 2015

L'autore:

An award-winning writer, Dan Ephron has served as the Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek and the Daily Beast and now lives in New York City.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393353249
• ISBN 13: 9780393353242
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 290