Our Last Best Chance A Story of War and Peace

Name: Our Last Best Chance A Story of War and Peace
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ISBN: 9780143120308

ISBN-10: 0143120301

ISBN-13: 9780143120308

Edition: N/A

Authors: King Abdullah King Abdullah II of Jordan

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A call for peace by the most dynamic leader of the Arab world. At a time of unprecedented upheaval in the Middle East, King Abdullah II of Jordan is almost unique in enjoying widespread popular support. He is the ultimate modern-day monarch, as comfortable at a business conference as he is at a meeting of the Arab League. In this prescient memoir-cum-manifesto, he makes an urgent plea to push for a solution to the Arab-Israeli crisis. He writes with disarming frankness about his own upbringing and warns of the brewing resentment in the region. A call to arms by the most dynamic young ruler in the Arab world, Our Last Best Chancehelps explain the volatile underpinnings of the new Arab…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.42" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Preface





The Conflict Begins


The 1967 War


Dark Clouds over Amman


Arriving in America





Sandhurst


Qatraneh Nights


A Secret Mission


"You Guys Don't Stand a Chance"


A Royal Wedding


Lessons in Diplomacy


Very Special Operations





In the Footsteps of a Legend


Becoming King


Friends and Neighbors


Transforming Jordan


Desert Deerfield





Jerusalem at the Heart of Conflict


Seeking Peace, Getting War


War in the Desert


"We Will Be Greeted as Liberators"





My Islam


Jordan's 9/11


The Amman Message





The End of an Era


The Mask Slips


A New Voice from America


Fortress Israel or a Fifty-Seven-State Solution?


Acknowledgments


Index