Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge

Saïd K. Aburish

Mar 2012 · Bloomsbury Publishing

About this ebook

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 most powerful and unpredictable man in the world today. He 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, and who now fights for Iraq's survival. This is the chilling story of how the man who, with the encouragement of western governments, made his country the most advanced in the Arab world in the 1970s, and through personal ambition led it to disaster at the end of the 1980s, now fights for its survival.

Ratings and reviews

History events are inline but the focus on showing the bad side of Saddam is exaggerated. He is a leader who built a moderne self sustained third world country in no time which upset the west they took him down, you need to give the credit for that.

The information in this book is never true .... 99% of information false .. Saddam Hussein was a leading learning and studied at school. .. He did not do any bad work in his youth and he was a human being . quiet and cultured. .. I do not know where this writer came to lie about Saddam Hussein? !!! This book is a liar and the author came the information from enemies of Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein was very good person and he fight alone for his country but no one help him if anyone would help him then was the winner

About the author

Saïd K. Aburish was born in the biblical village of Bethany near Jerusalem in 1935. He has been a consultant to two Arab governments, and is now a journalist and author living in London. His books include Children of Bethany; The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud; and Arafat: From Defender to Dictator.