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

Lacey, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0143118277 ISBN 13: 9780143118275

Casa editrice: Penguin Group USA, 2010

Riassunto

"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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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.

Product Description:

Book by Lacey Robert

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Group USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0143118277
• ISBN 13: 9780143118275
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 404