Drawn from extensive personal archives and filled with startling revelations, the definitive biography of Ariel Sharon illuminates his life and work from the penetrating perspective of his youngest son, Gilad Sharon--one of his father's closest confidants. Readers of George W. Bush's "Decision Points, "Tony Blair's "A Journey," Yitzhak Rabin's "The Rabin Memoirs," and Moshe Dayan's "Story of My Life," as well as Benjamin Netanyahu's "A Durable Peace," will be fascinated by Gilad Sharon's piercing, authoritative, and intimate portrait of Ariel Sharon the Prime Minister, the father, and the military hero, in a narrative that traces his evolution into a powerful and influential force at the center of Middle Eastern and world politics.