To Dr. Weizmann, President of Israel, more than to any other man goes the credit for the realization of the Zionist ideal. Notable in this intellectually candid record is the fact that he embraced and propagated Jewish nationalism because he regarded it as a positive good, not merely a negative escape from gentile persecution. This intensely human book, which in a sense is the story of modern Zionism, constitutes one of the indispensable sources for the history of our times.