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Binyamin Netanyahu’s memoir is a fascinating study of power

It could reasonably be called “The Netanyahu Guidebook for Successful Populists”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during joint statements together with Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, not seen, at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. Israel and the Hamas militant group agreed to a cease-fire Wednesday to end eight days of the fiercest fighting in nearly four years, promising to halt attacks on each other and ease an Israeli blockade constricting the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Bibi: My Story. By Binyamin Netanyahu. Simon & Schuster; 736 pages; $32 and £25

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