Ariel Sharon is one of the most experienced, shrewd and frightening leaders of the new millennium. Kimmerling's new book describes Sharon's quest to reshape the whole geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.

Baruch Kimmerling was Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto and George S. Wise Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He published numerous books and articles on Israel and Palestine including, with Joel S. Migdal, a revised and enlarged edition of Palestinians: The Making of a People. He died in 2007.