The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin Lucy Ash
Hlustaðu og lestu
Stígðu inn í heim af óteljandi sögum
- Lestu og hlustaðu eins mikið og þú vilt
- Þúsundir titla
- Getur sagt upp hvenær sem er
- Engin skuldbinding
The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
- Eftir
- Með:
- Útgefandi
Based on exclusive interviews, an eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a central Middle East power broker.
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Wall Street Journal publisher, Karen House has gained unprecedented insights into Saudi Arabia and its controversial leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman through her more than forty years of experience covering the Arab kingdom.
House reveals a leader who like Peter the Great, is a reformer determined to modernize his kingdom but also an autocrat who jails political opponents and rival princes to assure his grip on power. Drawing on extensive interviews with the Crown Prince, his royal relatives, and his inner ring of advisors, The Man Who Would Be King explains in full what shaped the man who is reshaping Saudi Arabia.
Drawing on fresh, headline-making reporting, House balances both sides of this complex ruler. We are introduced to MBS the visionary, who has ushered in reforms for women to participate more equitably, encouraged tourism to the Kingdom, and placed long term bets on green energy and trillion dollar mega-projects like The Line, a hundred-mile-long enclosed futuristic city in the desert that will be run by AI. And we meet MBS the Machiavellian prince, widely accused of having Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi murdered, and of sports washing the kingdom's reputation by investing billions in teams globally, from Premiere League soccer to the LIV (liv) golf tour to the World Cup which the Kingdom will host in 2034.
The Man Who Would Be King reveals MBS in all his complexities, from his rise to power and his vision for the future of his Kingdom, to his ruthless maneuvers to project power—a shrewd broker working to seal a viable deal with Israel and bring peace to Gaza while he cuts oil supplies to manipulate Western politics. It is an unprecedent and much needed in-depth portrait of the leader who, at only thirty-nine, will be a major player on the world stage for the next half century.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
© 2025 Harper (Hljóðbók): 9780063390386
Útgáfudagur
Hljóðbók: 8 juli 2025
Aðrir höfðu einnig áhuga á...
- Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences Joan Biskupic
- Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth Tom Burgis
- We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution Jill Lepore
- Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron John Preston
- The Age of Discontent: How Workers and Farmers Reinvented American Democracy Ralph Brauer
- The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men Eric Lichtblau
- Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World's Last Frontier Heriberto Araujo
- The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present Allen James Fromherz
- Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump's Women Nina Burleigh
- The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program Jeremy Scahill
- The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism Tim Alberta
- Call Me Commander: A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece America Daniel M. Freed
- Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump Karoun Demirjian
- A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times Mark T. Esper
- White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us Joe Moore
- Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice David Enrich
- Launching Liberty: The Epic Race to Build the Ships that Took America to War Doug Most
- Watergate Garrett M. Graff
- Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures Lizzie Wade
- Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition Daniel Okrent
- The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines Justin F. Jackson
- A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South Maria Angela Diaz
- Blind Ambition: The White House Years John W. Dean
- Israel: A History Anita Shapira
- True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy Kati Marton
- Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War Drew Hinshaw
- Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It Elie Honig
- Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History Yasmeen Abutaleb
- Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World Lori Clune, PhD
- Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads David Rundell
- The Case for American Power Shadi Hamid
- Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil Saul Friedländer
- From Hamas to America: My Story of Defying Terror, Facing the Unimaginable, and Finding Redemption in the Land of Opportunity Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss Harry Cole
- Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project Leslie R. Groves
- Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO Susan Colbourn
- America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators Jacob Heilbrunn
- Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies Barry Meier
- The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the Race to Create an Atomic Weapon Gareth Williams
- On Power Mark R. Levin
- Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy Jamie Raskin
- The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech Jeff Kosseff
- Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany Anne Berg
- Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania Paul Kenyon
- Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century David Caute
- Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal David Pietrusza
- City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington Kathryn J. McGarr
- Looking for the Enemy: Mullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban Bette Dam
- The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi’s new China Michael Smith
- Selling Hate: Marketing the Ku Klux Klan Dale W. Laackman
- 12 Seconds Of Silence: How a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon Jamie Holmes
- Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival Chris Horton
- White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany’s Far Right Jacob Kushner
- One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General William P. Barr
- The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War Mitchell A. Orenstein
- Breaking History: A White House Memoir Jared Kushner
- Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire Raymond Jonas
- The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism Peter Oborne
- Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan Joanna Lillis
- Keir Starmer: The Biography Tom Baldwin
- Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away Ann Hagedorn
- Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran, and the Struggle for the Middle East Afshon Ostovar
- This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy Jonathan Martin
- The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade Benjamin T. Smith
- How to Fight a War Mike Martin
- The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House Chris Whipple
- Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War Raj M. Shah
- Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny Con Coughlin
- Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East Robert Fisk
- No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs Nury Turkel
- Too Big to Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican Drug Cartels and the Greatest Banking Scandal of the Century Chris Blackhurst
- Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Illusion James Poniewozik
- The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family David Cay Johnston
- An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford Richard Norton Smith
- The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions: Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions Arash Azizi
- Reagan: His Life and Legend Max Boot
- The Soviet Century Moshe Lewin
- Nixon's War at Home: The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism Daniel S. Chard
- American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850–1873 Alan Taylor
- Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn of the Forever War Jake Tapper
- Guests of the Ayatollah Mark Bowden
- The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics Steve Benen
- Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age Reid Mitenbuler
- Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism Daniel Byman
- Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed Jim Popkin
- Kicking the Hornet's Nest: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Truman to Trump Daniel E Zoughbie
- Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America Will Sommer
- The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform Odd Arne Westad
- The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern Century Hal Brands
- The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee Paul R. Gregory
- The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind Simon Winchester
- A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine Chris Hedges
- Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad Michela Wrong
- Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain Jeremy Paxman
- The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide Dwight Chapin
- Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History Chris Whipple
- Fiðrildaherbergið Lucinda Riley
4.4 - Hvarfið Torill Thorup4.4
- Myrká Arnaldur Indriðason4.4
- Vinkonur að eilífu? Sarah Morgan4.1
- Áttunda fórnarlambið Birgitta H. Halldórsdóttir4
- Franska sveitabýlið Jo Thomas4
- Hildur Satu Rämö4.3
- Aldrei aldrei Colleen Hoover3.1
- Skilnaðurinn Moa Herngren4
- Sálarstríð Steindór Ívarsson4.6
- Kvöldið sem hún hvarf Eva Björg Ægisdóttir4.3
- Nýtt líf Danielle Steel3.9
- Hennar hinsta stund Carla Kovach4.1
- Svívirt Torill Thorup4.3
- Þegar sannleikurinn sefur Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir4.3
Veldu áskrift
Yfir 900.000 hljóð- og rafbækur
Yfir 400 titlar frá Storytel Original
Barnvænt viðmót með Kids Mode
Vistaðu bækurnar fyrir ferðalögin
Vinsælast
Unlimited
Besti valkosturinn fyrir einn notanda
3290 kr /mánuði
3 daga ókeypis
Yfir 900.000 hljóð- og rafbækur
Engin skuldbinding
Getur sagt upp hvenær sem er
Family
Fyrir þau sem vilja deila sögum með fjölskyldu og vinum.
Byrjar á 3990 kr /mánuður
3 daga ókeypis
Yfir 900.000 hljóð- og rafbækur
Engin skuldbinding
Getur sagt upp hvenær sem er
Þú + 1 fjölskyldumeðlimur2 aðgangar
3990 kr /mánuði
Gagnlegir hlekkir
Tungumál og land
Íslenska
Ísland
