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Originally written under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil and published before the Gulf War, Republic of Fear describes the rise of Saddam Hussein and the Arab Ba'th Socialist party. The author, an Iraqi expatriate now living in the United States, offers this updated edition under his real name, Kanan Makiya. A new introduction discusses events following the invasion of Kuwait ("the chamber of horrors that is Saddam Hussein's Iraq has grown into something that not even the most morbid imagination could have dreamed up"). The book is not merely a chronicle of recent Iraqi politics, but a discussion of why the country has evolved into "a Kafkaesque world ... one ruled and held together by fear." Essential reading for anybody who wants to understand modern Iraq. --John J. Miller
From Library Journal
The author, an Iraqi expatriate writing under an assumed name, has painted a bleak and forbidding landscape of Iraq--past, present, and future. He painstakingly lays out the labyrinthine history of the chronologies, players, and actions of the Ba'th party and Iraq from 1958 to 1980. However, despite its thoroughness, this book is not objective; in the prefatory note, al-Khalil states "my prejudices . . . give rise to a particular interpretation of Iraqi Ba'thism." While his bias may be somewhat borne out, the author unfortunately writes more from conviction than from impartial observation. Nonetheless, this is highly recommended for all major collections in large public and academic libraries.
- David P. Snider, Casa Grande P.L., Ariz.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Originally written under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil and published before the Gulf War, Republic of Fear describes the rise of Saddam Hussein and the Arab Ba'th Socialist party. The author, an Iraqi expatriate now living in the United States, offers this updated edition under his real name, Kanan Makiya. A new introduction discusses events following the invasion of Kuwait ("the chamber of horrors that is Saddam Hussein's Iraq has grown into something that not even the most morbid imagination could have dreamed up"). The book is not merely a chronicle of recent Iraqi politics, but a discussion of why the country has evolved into "a Kafkaesque world ... one ruled and held together by fear." Essential reading for anybody who wants to understand modern Iraq. --John J. Miller
From Library Journal
The author, an Iraqi expatriate writing under an assumed name, has painted a bleak and forbidding landscape of Iraq--past, present, and future. He painstakingly lays out the labyrinthine history of the chronologies, players, and actions of the Ba'th party and Iraq from 1958 to 1980. However, despite its thoroughness, this book is not objective; in the prefatory note, al-Khalil states "my prejudices . . . give rise to a particular interpretation of Iraqi Ba'thism." While his bias may be somewhat borne out, the author unfortunately writes more from conviction than from impartial observation. Nonetheless, this is highly recommended for all major collections in large public and academic libraries.
- David P. Snider, Casa Grande P.L., Ariz.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Editorial Reviews
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