"Joel Gordon's new book will likely become the standard work on the
early years of military rule in Egypt....[A] carefully researched
and original view of the period."--American Historical Review
"An important contribution."--Digest of Middle East Studies
"May become the standard account of the period....A welcome and
needed corrective to previous studies of a tumultuous
period."--CHOICE
"Perceptive and extremely well-researched."--Times Literary
Supplement
"Gordon provides us with a fascinating account of the Egyptian
revolution. The author has written a copiously documented book and
makes sound use of newly classified American and Bristish archives
on the period."--Central Asian Survey
"Well-researched and dispassionate....It is good to be reminded
through Gordon's detailed study of this period, how provisional,
extempore and contingent the works of politics and history
are."--Times Higher Education Supplement
"Masterly....Relying on recently opened archives, interviews, and a
flood of Egyptian memoirs, he makes sense of those tumultous
months...With literary grace and fine historical sensitivity, he
explains how the decay of liberalism made Egypt ripe for drastic
reform, and how Nassar filled the aching need for a 'just
tyrant.'"--Orbis
"Gordon has contributed an intelligent and elegant book,
fascinating in the tale it tells and impressive in the breadth of
coverage of all the available sources."--International Journal of
Middle East Studies
"Elegantly written."--Middle East Journal
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