This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in
Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first
century, in the larger context of the Zionist 'renaissance', of
which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described
Ben-Gurion's Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia
doomed to be unfulfilled. Now - after the dust surrounding Israel's
founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and
perspective has been gained since Ben-Gurion's downfall - this book
presents a fresh look at this statesman-intellectual and his
success and tragic failures during a unique period of time that he
and his peers described as the 'Jewish renaissance'. The resulting
reappraisal offers a new analysis of Ben-Gurion's actual role as a
major player in Israeli, Middle Eastern, and global politics.