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Farrar Straus & Giroux [Published Date: 1985]. Hardcover, 289 pp. Stated First Edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Cream paper over boards with green cloth and black lettering on spine. Light scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's gift inscription in ink on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing to edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Includes a 12-page section with black and white photo reproductions [From jacket flaps] Moshe Dayan was one of the great figures of our time. He was Israel's foremost military leader; indeed, that country's survival probably owed more to his genius than to the effort of any other person except for the state's founder and Dayan's mentor, David Ben-Gurion. Dayan - soldier, politician, archaeologist, visionary - was already a legend in his lifetime. Now, after his death, he has become almost a mythical figure. The real Moshe Dayan was, of course, not a myth but a man. One of the most fascinating aspects of Yael Dayan's book is that she has restored to the world Dayan the man, from the intimacy of a daughter's perspective. My Father, His Daughter is, first of all, a memoir of Yael Dayan's relationship with her father. It describes their passionate, committed, sometimes painful connection with unflinching honesty yet without the slightest rancor. In writing the book, Yael Dayan has provided a more profound, nuanced biography of her father than any yet written. At the same time, she has written her own autobiography - an account which reveals a person quite as fascinating as General Dayan himself. In writing about her father's life and her own, Yael Dayan has also succeeded in portraying something of what it is to be an Israeli, for what could better exemplify Israel than the story of the Dayans? My Father, His Daughter provides a gripping account of the great events of Israeli history, from the War of Independence to the Camp David Agreement. Most importantly, though, My Father, His Daughter presents the real story of the Dayan family: a complicated, controversial story. But though Yael Dayan necessarily sees things from her own perspective, her memoir is remarkable for its fair-mindedness. It is a work of love and respect, the work of a writer who is a brilliant storyteller (Yael Dayan is a novelist of distinction) and a remarkable figure in her own right.