Last King of Scotland

Name: Last King of Scotland
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ISBN: 9780375703317

ISBN-10: 0375703314

ISBN-13: 9780375703317

Edition: N/A

Authors: Giles Foden

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Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his red Maserati, has run over a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, in his obsession for all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. And so begins a fateful dalliance with the central African leader whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a reign of terror. In The Last King of ScotlandFoden's Amin is as ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a grown man who must be burped like an infant, a self-proclaimed cannibalist who, at the end of his 8 years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths.…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/26/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English