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Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert LaceyAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-10-05Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780143118275ISBN-10:143118277UPC:9780143118275Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, Social History, WorldBook Topic:Middle EasternSize:8.33 x 5.53 x 0.99 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SC15XY40ZA

"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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780143118275ISBN-10:143118277UPC:9780143118275Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, Social History, WorldBook Topic:Middle EasternSize:8.33 x 5.53 x 0.99 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SC15XY40ZA
Robert Lacey is a British journalist and the author of the bestselling books The Kingdom, Majesty, and Ford: The Men and the Machine. For the past three years he has split his time between Saudi Arabia and London to research this book.


Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr

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