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The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril
Viking
March 2011
On Sale: February 22, 2011
295 pages
ISBN: 0670021717
EAN: 9780670021710
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest
challenge in the world today. When a dying King
Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his
brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of
Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of
Special Operations, who discovered his life was in for a
major upheaval. This is the inspirational story of a
young prince who went to boarding school in America and
military academy in Britain and grew up believing he would
be a soldier. Back home, he hunted down terrorists and
modernized Jordan's Special Forces. Then, suddenly, he found
himself king. Together with his wife, Queen Rania, he
transformed what it meant to be a monarch, going undercover
to escape the bubble of the court while she became the
Muslim world's most passionate advocate of women's rights.
In this exceptionally candid memoir, King Abdullah
tackles the single toughest issue he faces head-on- how to
solve the Israeli-Palestinian standoff- and reveals himself
to be an invaluable intermediary between America and the
Arab world. He writes about the impact of the Iraq war on
his neighborhood and how best to tackle Iran's nuclear
ambitions. Why would a sitting head of state choose
to write about the most explosive issues he faces? King
Abdullah does so now because he believes we face a moment of
truth: a last chance for peace in the Middle East. The prize
is enormous, the cost of failure far greater than we dare
imagine.
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