About the Author

R L Jarman

Reviews

"At first sight this is a book for the specialist. ... But Robert Jarman has produced a thoroughly good read, which is well worth the time of anyone interested in the governance and power politics of the Gulf during the 1960s and 1970s. And much of the analysis remains highly relevant to the Gulf today. ...The overall effect, highly unusual in a book of this genre, is a warts and all portrait of a low-profile, but often underrated, player in Kuwaiti and regional politics over a crucial 40-year period up to his death in 1977." -- Richard Muir, Asian Affairs, July 2004.