Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East

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University of California Press, 1989 - Biography & Autobiography - 552 pages
"This is a book in the finest tradition of investigative scholarship. The research is awesome. . . . Seale’s great strength is his ability to explain the confusing kaleidoscopic nature of Middle Eastern diplomacy. He understands the game being played and also knows the players. . . . [An] impressive book.”--Los Angeles Times Book Review
 

Contents

Party School and Army College
24
The Peasants Revolt
41
The Cairo Conspiracy
49
9
60
Capturing the State
72
Capturing the Party
86
Blindly to the Brink
104
10
128
15
211
Duel with Henry Kissinger
226
The Year Things Fell Apart
250
17
267
Jimmy Carters False Dawn
290
The Enemy Within
316
20
329
Ally of the Ayatollah
351

The Fight to the
142
11
152
12
169
13
185
14
194
The October Illusion
202
23
362
24
371
The Brothers
421
25
441
Forging a Nation
518
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