Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernisys, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia.
by Lacey, Robert
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0670021180
- ISBN 13
- 9780670021185
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Synopsis
"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an epic tale." -Tom Brokaw Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Moving from the bloody seizure of Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979, through the Persian Gulf War, to the delicate U.S.-Saudi relations in a post 9/11 world, Inside the Kingdom brings recent history to vivid life and offers a powerful story of a country learning how not to be at war with itself.
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- Bookseller
- Priceless Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 217287
- Title
- Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernisys, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia.
- Author
- Lacey, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0670021180
- ISBN 13
- 9780670021185
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Middle East History
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