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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Wallace Stegner , Thomas W LippmanPublisher: Selwa Press Imprint: Selwa Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.617kg ISBN: 9780970115744ISBN 10: 0970115741 Pages: 259 Publication Date: 18 September 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsA riveting picture of the desert kingdom before it was transformed by oil wealth. -- Washington Post A historical jewel. -- Deseret News A historical jewel. -- Deseret News There are fresh insights here into the worldview of novelist and environmentalist Stegner, who founded Stanford's creative writing program. --Stanford Magazine [Wallace Stegner is] possibly the most accomplished person of American letters in our time. --Jackson Benson, author and biographer A grand adventure story. --Los Angeles Times Tells how Americans helped the Arabs find the natural resource buried under their deserts that would make them a major player in the world economy. If you want to know how we got into this mess, Stegner will tell you. Library Journal A riveting picture of the desert kingdom before it was transformed by oil wealth. Washington Post A grand adventure story. Los Angeles Times A classic. A great American writer on the birth of Saudi Arabia's oil industry midst global crisesand the collaboration across cultures that made it possible. Daniel Yergin, Pultizer Prize-winning author, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power This is a fascinating and timely rediscovery. Wallace Stegner was the finest American writer to wander through early Saudi Arabia. His voice is all heresharp, clear, and entertaining. Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prizewinning author, Ghost Wars For serious Stegner fans who want more of the master. Seattle Times I was there in 1938 and lived part of this story, so I can vouch for the authenticity of Stegner's engaging and insightful narrative. Nestor Sander, author, Ibn Saud: King by Conquest [Stegner] anticipates the 'New Journalism' of Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe by a decade, unabashedly entering the minds of the people he writes about. San Jose Mercury News Author InformationWallace Stegner is the author of more than 30 books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose. He established the creative writing program at Stanford University in 1945. Thomas W. Lippman is an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute. He is the author of Egypt After Nasser, Inside the Mirage: America's Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia, Madeline Albright and the New American Diplomacy, and Understanding Islam. He has traveled extensively in Saudi Arabia as a reporter and diplomat on behalf of the Washington Post. He lives in Washington, DC. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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