Moshe Sharett: Biography of a Political Moderate

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Notes xi
• Contents xiii
• Abbreviations xv
• Introduction: Sharett's Forgotten Struggles 1
• Notes 5
• 1 Roots 6
• Notes 32
• 2 The Road to National Leadership 34
• Notes 57
• 3 Ascendance 59
• Notes 99
• 4 The Second World War 104
• Notes 134
• 5 Holocaust 138
• Notes 164
• 6 A State in the Making 168
• Notes 203
• 7 Preparing for Statehood 207
• Notes 240
• 8 'If Not Now, When?' 244
• Notes 268
• 9 Light at the End of the Tunnel 271
• Notes 297
• 10 'We Must Go Forward!' 301
• Notes 333
• 11 The First Israeli Foreign Minister 337
• Notes 366
• 12 Non-Alignment 370
• Notes 392
• 13 A Lament for Generations to Come? 395
• Notes 421
• 14 'truce, Yes; Peace, No!' 425
• Notes 444
• 15 Membership in the 'Family of Nations' 448
• Notes 466
• 16: American Pressures 469
• 17 'If I Forget Thee, Oh Jerusalem!' 496
• Notes 532
• 18 A Swing Towards the West 537
• Notes 565
• 19 A Year of Troubles 569
• Notes 608
• 20 'A People That Does Not Dwell Alone' 615
• Notes 648
• 21 A Coalition of Two 653
• Notes 676
• 22 The 'Obvious' Heir 680
• Notes 708
• 23 A Beleaguered Prime Minister 712
• Notes 746
• 24 The Mishap 750
• Notes 767
• 25 'A State of Law and Order or Of Robbery?' 770
• Notes 804
• 26 Selection and Elections 808
• Notes 837
• 27 The Struggle Over the Sharett Line 841
• Notes 856
• 28 Resignation 859
• Notes 885
• 29 'My Country Has Deserted Me!' 888
• Notes 918
• 30 New Missions 922
• Notes 939
• 31 'Fear and [political] Greed' 942
• Notes 956
• 32 Last Battles 959
• Notes 975
• 33 The Sharett Legacy 977
• Notes 1015
• 34 The Last Triumph and Demise 1016
• Notes 1021
• Select Bibliography 1022
• Index 1033

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