How long does it take to read My Life?
Golda Meir
My Life by Golda Meir takes about 8 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 37 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1975. 470 pages, about 129,250 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
My Life by Golda Meir is a compelling autobiography, which tells the life of this influential woman, from her early poverty-stricken childhood in Kiev, to her tenure as Prime Minister of Israel, from 1969 to 1974. This is Golda Meir's long-awaited personal and moving story of her life. For the first time, we experience through her own words how it happened that this amazing woman, born in Russia and brought up in Milwaukee, became the prime minister of Israel and one of the political giants of our time without ever losing the warmth and informality for which she is justly celebrated. She herself describes her career as Israel's labor minister, foreign minister, and finally prime minister, against the background of her conflicting roles as a wife and as a mother. This personal story of her own life inevitably reflects also the story of Israel itself -- and of its struggle to survive -- culminating in what was for Golda Meir the most desperate period of all, the terrible days of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. - Jacket flap.
Subjects: Biography, Politics and government, Prime ministers, Women prime ministers, Zionists, History
