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No Room for Small Dreams

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No Room for Small Dreams
Full titleNo Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel
AuthorShimon Peres
Published2017
Pages336
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listPeres’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 heard about it

  • A reply to @typesfast — in the thread under his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025), listed as “No Room for Small Dreams by Shimon Peres.” The full set of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).

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.
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