PositiveThe New York Times Book Review... [a] deeply researched, engrossing and, in some respects, controversial biography ... Segev is best when probing the human side of the complex leader ... Where A State at Any Cost falls short is when the author injects his own ideology into the events of Ben-Gurion’s life. Segev has been associated with revisionist historians, known in the past as \'new historians,\' who challenge Israel’s founding narratives — sometimes with bracing reality, often with controversial positions disputed by other experts ... Through the drama of his life, and despite his failings — both personal and political — Ben-Gurion emerges in Segev’s book as a man of vision and integrity.
