8vo. xxxv, 278 pp., 5 maps, family tree, b/w plates hors text, cloth in d/w, appendix, glossary, biblio, jacket clipped and slightly rubbed round edges, otherwise copy inside clean and in very good condition, William Morrow & Company Inc., New York, first US edition, 1989.

Synopsis

A political biography, written by a man who has been on close terms with the King of Jordan for 30 years, peers behind the layers of secrecy that have shielded Hussein from the American public’s view to present a warts-and-all portrait of one of the most remarkable monarchs of our time. [Jacket].