{"product_id":"inside-the-kingdom-kings-clerics-modernists-terrorists-and-the-struggle-for-saudi-arabia-9780143118275","title":"Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\" \u003cbr\u003e -Tom Brokaw \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eInside the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e brings recent history to vivid life and offers a powerful story of a country learning how not to be at war with itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143118275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.33h x 5.53w x 0.99d","brand":"Robert Lacey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44391868498101,"sku":"9780143118275","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_eca9d948-2b4d-46fb-92d8-cd7f50847e38.jpg?v=1719949029","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/inside-the-kingdom-kings-clerics-modernists-terrorists-and-the-struggle-for-saudi-arabia-9780143118275","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}