Ibn Saud: King by Conquest
by Nestor Sander
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Author: Nestor SanderEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09
ISBN: 1587360179
Number of pages: 270
Publisher: Hats Off Books
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Summary: 5 Stars
In 1939, a young American paleontologist, Nestor Sander, met and shook hands with one of the most remarkable, and perhaps least acknowledged, national leaders of the twentieth century, Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman as Saud, the king of Saudi Arabia. For the next fifty years, as Mr. Sander pursued a distinguished career in petroleum paleontology, he remained so impressed by that encounter that he immersed himself in the history of the Desert King. He studied the nine biographies of Ibn Saud in English as well as the two other accounts in French and was struck by certain inconsistencies among them. This result is this fine book, Ibn Saud: King by Conquest.Divided into three parts, the author blends the precision of scientific survey and analysis with the delightful humanism of a wise, well-traveled man of letters. The first section is a stirring account of the King's rise to power concluding with the Yemen War in 1934. The second section, The Saudi State, begins with the Standard Oil of California concession in 1933 and goes on to detail the impact that oil wealth made on the nation in Ibn Saud's lifetime. In the third part, The Man, Nestor Sander writes a qualitative and honest appreciation of King Abdul Aziz that is both disciplined and personal.
Lavished with archival portraits of many of the main characters of the period, a generous addendum of biographies that range from Captain Shakespear to Mubarak ibn Subah as Subah, the founder of modern Kuwait, and perhaps the most comprehensive set of maps that any reader could ever desire, including a 15 by 18 inch color map inset into the end paper, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the King and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - then or now.
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