TY - BOOK ID - 137664013 TI - Likud leaders : the lives and careers of Menahem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ariel Sharon PY - 2015 SN - 1476619859 9781476619859 9780786497133 0786497130 PB - Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Statesmen KW - Prime ministers KW - Likud (Political party : Israel) KW - Israel KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137664013 AB - This book is an exploration of the history and ideology of Revisionist Zionism--the stream of Zionism represented by the ruling Likud Party in Israel--from its inception in the 1920s under Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky through its modification under Herut Party leader Menahem Begin to the present. The main features of Revisionist Zionism under Jabotinsky are discussed, with each of the four Likud Party leaders receiving two to three chapters covering his early life, early career and rise to party leadership and his legacy for the party and the state. An overview is given of the 1940s underground c ER -