New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Date: 2012. First edition. . Hardcover. As New/Very Good. Book is clean and tight. First printing. 2012. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN 0307272168 9780307272164 [US]

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Date: 2012. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2012. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN 0307272168 9780307272164 [US]

ISBN10: 0307272168, ISBN13: 9780307272164, [publisher: Knopf.] Hardcover 2012. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.
[Chicago, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]

ISBN10: 0307272168, ISBN13: 9780307272164, [publisher: Knopf.] Hardcover 2012. Hardcover. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Very Good.
[Chicago, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]

Knopf, Date: 2012-09-18. First Edition. Hardcover. Used: Good. 2012. Knopf ISBN 0307272168 9780307272164 [US]

ISBN10: 0307272168, ISBN13: 9780307272164, [publisher: ALFRED A KNOPF] Hardcover From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabia--as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then publisher of "The""Wall Street Journal"--an important and timely book that explores all facets of life in this shrouded Kingdom: its tribal past, its complicated present, its precarious future. Through observation, anecdote, extensive interviews, and analysis Karen Elliot House navigates the maze in which Saudi citizens find themselves trapped and reveals the mysterious nation that is the world's largest exporter of oil, critical to global stability, and a source of Islamic terrorists. In her probing and sharp-eyed portrait, we see Saudi Arabia, one of the last absolute monarchies in the world, considered to be the final bulwark against revolution in the region, as threatened by multiple fissures and forces, its levers of power controlled by a handful of elderly Al Saud princes with an average age of 77 years and an extended family of some 7,000 princes. Yet at least 60 percent of the increasingly restive population they rule is under the age of 20. The author writes that oil-rich Saudi Arabia has become a rundown welfare state. The public pays no taxes; gets free education and health care; and receives subsidized water, electricity, and energy (a gallon of gasoline is cheaper in the Kingdom than a bottle ...

Knopf Publishing Group 2012 First Hard cover Excellent [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: Knopf Pub Date: 9/18/2012 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 320.