Sharon

The Life of a Leader

By: Gilad Sharon

Narrated by: Rich Topol

Drawn from extensive personal archives and filled withstartling revelations, the definitive biography of Ariel Sharon illuminates hislife and work from the penetrating perspective of his youngest son, Gilad Sharon—one of his father’s closest confidants.Readers of George W. Bush’s Decision Points, Tony Blair’s A Journey,Yitzhak Rabin’s The Rabin Memoirs, and Moshe Dayan’s Story of My Life,as well as Benjamin Netanyahu’s A Durable Peace, will be fascinated by Gilad Sharon’s piercing, authoritative, and intimateportrait of Ariel Sharon the Prime Minister, the father, and the military hero,in a narrative that traces his evolution into a powerful and influential forceat the center of Middle Eastern and world politics.

Good Bio with no surprises

If you could sum up Sharon in three words, what would they be?

charasmatic, strong, leader

Would you be willing to try another book from Gilad Sharon? Why or why not?

maybe if I didn't have anything better to read

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Suicide bombers you can't live with them and you can't live without them.

Any additional comments?

Good book, well voiced, Gives a good picture of sharon's public lifebut almost nothing on his private life. I pray for Sharon he has been in a coma for 6 years now.

Way too detailed

much details The phone calls Sharon had while he was a Prime Minister is exhausting

Excellent Biography From an Unparalleled Source

I actually will listen to it again because Ariel Sharon's life paralleled the entire span of Israeli history and from a young age he became a major figure. He had fought in, commanded in, saved, lead or ordered every war in Israeli history up until his stroke. He is the father of the settlements and of the pullout from Gaza.

His son Gilad, the author, had unparalleled access since he had all of his father's meticulous notes and records, was among his father's most trusted advisors and was actually in the room for a great deal of the stories he recounts

It is an excellent book and due to the importance of Ariel Sharon to Israeli history and the closeness of the author to his subject, I would strongly recommend it, regardless of your level of knowledge about broader Israeli history.