Saddam Hussein
Subtitle: the politics of revenge
By: Saïd K. Aburish.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Distributed to the trade by St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Hussein, Saddam, 1937-; Presidents -- Iraq -- Biography.; Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1979-1991.; Iraq -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge, the author draws on his own knowledge of and extensive contacts within the Arab world to produce both a thorough biography and a penetrating psychological profile of the Iraqi leader.".

"Said Abolish worked with Saddam Hussein in the 1970s and is therefore able to add dimension and personal experience to the reader's understanding of the terrifying, yet charismatic, dictator.

The author explains why Saddam behaves as he does by suggesting that his life has been marked by a series of personal quests: for recognition after being orphaned and brought up by a destitute uncle; for control of his country; for leadership of the Arab world; for mastery of the technology of destruction."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-390) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Cruel Ancestry; title: 2. The Shadow of Al Zuhour Palace; title: 3. A Gun for Hire; title: 4. Playing Stalin to Bakr's Lenin; title: 5. Seeking Heaven; title: 6. Marching to Halabja; title: 7. From Planning to Plotting; title: 8. An Aimless War; title: 9. Illusions of Alliance; title: 10. The Friend-Foe Game; title: 11. An Abundance of Pride, A Shortage; title: of Intellect; title: 12. Principality of Stones; title: 13. No Exit?.