{"product_id":"inside-the-kingdom-robert-lacey-9780143118275","title":"Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It's all here-Islam, the family tree, a sea of oil and money to match, palace intrigue...This is high drama and an epic tale.\" \u003cbr\u003e -Tom Brokaw \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Though Saudi Arabia sits on one of the richest oil deposits in the world, it also produced fifteen of the nineteen 9\/11 hijackers. In this immensely important book, journalist Robert Lacey draws on years of access to every circle of Saudi society giving readers the fullest portrait yet of a land straddling the worlds of medievalism and modernity. Moving from the bloody seizure of Mecca's Grand Mosque in 1979, through the Persian Gulf War, to the delicate U.S.-Saudi relations in a post 9\/11 world, \u003ci\u003eInside the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e brings recent history to vivid life and offers a powerful story of a country learning how not to be at war with itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Lacey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143118277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143118275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.33h x 5.53w x 0.99d","brand":"Robert Lacey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946227859711,"sku":"9780143118275","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_81a36b58-1c54-48be-a8a5-22ef5fc1bb4b.jpg?v=1681512121","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inside-the-kingdom-robert-lacey-9780143118275","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}