8vo. 221 pp., photographs, tables, hard back in d/w, biblio, index, Kutub, Beirut, first edition, 2004.

Synopsis

Antoun Saadeh (1904-1949), was the most modern and foreword thinking political leader in the Near East in the 20th century. His life has been closely entwined with the modern history of the Near East, and the understanding of his life and work has necessarily been subject to turmoil of that history. The first volume which appears on the first centennial of his birth, covers his youth years in Mount Lebanon and the Americas.