Kyle Harrison
to-read
No Room for Small Dreams
No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel
- Author
- Shimon Peres
- Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 336
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Peres’s final book — a memoir of state-building written by someone who did it, from arms procurement in 1947 through Dimona, Entebbe and Oslo.
Where I saw it: In the reply thread to @typesfast’s question, “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 5, 2025) — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved to his Apple Note “Books To Read”; the full set of replies lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet). It was listed there as “No Room for Small Dreams by Shimon Peres”.
Connections
- Leadership — The book’s explicit subject.
- Institutions — What Peres spent a career building.
- Biography — The form.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.