Cast of Characters xi Introduction: Call Me Golda xv PART ONE - STUBBORN ROOTS 1 The Carpenter's Daughter 3 2 An American Girl 27 3 Dearest Gogo 44 4 The Path to Palestine 62 PART TWO - ASCENT 5 New Jews 83 6 The Dark Years 106 7 A Star Is Born 118 8 Pioneer Woman 137 9 Black Clouds Rising 153 10 And the Heart Breaking 176 11 Life and Death 192 12 Ein Breira-No Alternative 220 13 Nevertheless: A Woman 245 14 1947: The Turning Point 269 15 The Time Is Now 294 PART THREE - MADAM MINISTER 16 Moscow 325 17 Either Immigrants or Shoes 351 18 The Politician 375 19 Golda Meir 396 20 Conflict and Charisma 421 21 A Mutual Distancing 443 22 Seat of Power 471 PART FOUR - PREMIER 23 The Chosen 497 24 A Different Kind of War 514 25 What Has Happened to Us? 535 26 Terror, Territories, and the Palestinian Question 558 27 Premier Meir and President Sadat 584 28 I Will Never Again Be the Person I Was 610 29 An Irrevocable Decision 639 30 My Only Fear Is to Live Too Long 662 Endings: I've Always Been a Realist 684 Acknowledgments 693 Notes 697 Bibliography 769 Index 785 sakriti opis