A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography.

MEIR, Golda.

Item Number: 126762

New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1973.

First edition of this biography by the former prime minister of Israel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.

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."