Anwar Sadat : visionary who dared
Bookreader Item Preview
Share or Embed This Item
- Publication date
- 1996
- Topics
- Sadat, Anwar, 1918-1981, Presidents -- Egypt -- Biography, Sādāt, Anwar as-, HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical, Biografie, Presidents, Egypt, Sadat, Anwar as-
- Publisher
- London ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass
- Collection
- printdisabled; internetarchivebooks
- Contributor
- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
1 online resource (xxxvi, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
This is the first major study of President Anwar Sadat by a journalist who came to know him well in the last few years of his life. Joseph Finklestone became intrigued by the unlikely and amazing story of Sadat's rise to power from an uncompromising beginning as a boy born into poverty, a fanatical, histrionic nationalist who spent years in prison. Emerging from prison as both an adventurer and an idealist, Sadat used his coolness and oratory to help Colonel Nasser's
Free Officers stage a successful revolution and overthrow King Farouk. On Nasser's death Sadat took over the presidency, to the surprise and chagrin of his left-wing Soviet-orientated opponents who underestimated his abilities. The book describes how Sadat appeared to dismiss Soviet Army advisers while secretly retaining links with Brezhnev for his own purposes; how he surprised Israel and the Americans by launching the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and, though defeated
Managed to save his army from destruction; how, with the help of Henry Kissinger, he began to plan peace with Israel and caused a world sensation by travelling to Jerusalem to address the Knesset. After signing the peace agreement with Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in March 1979, Sadat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the Israeli leader. This mark of Western approval aroused resentment among those
Arab leaders who felt he had betrayed the cause of Arab unity, a view which to Sadat's mind revealed their ignorance and petty-mindedness. Sadat's final years were embittered by his feeling that although he had achieved the great breakthrough by making peace with Israel, he had failed to give his people economic security. At the same time he was threatened and eventually assassinated by fanatics who misused Islam for their own fundamentalist endsthe same people who have
Since carried out terrorist attacks all over the world. Like Saddat, Yitzhak Rabin was a visionary, creator and a victim of a ruthless assassin. Both saw the need for concessions to be made for the sake of peace, and both were brutally gunned down at a moment when they began to taste the fruits of their hard and painful endeavours
Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xii) and index
Prologue: Meeting the President -- 1. The peasant -- 2. Search for an identity -- 3. Traumatic years in prison -- 4. Crucial meeting with Jihan -- 5. Sadat and Nasser in conflict -- 6. Road to catastrophe and renewal -- 7. Sadat the surprise President -- 8. Sadat starts a new revolution -- 9. War and the great deception -- 10. How Soviet leaders joined in Sadat's deception game -- 11. The October explosion -- 12. Kissinger enters the scene -- 13. Towards a breakthrough -- 14. Breaking a psychological barrier -- 15. Looking to Jerusalem -- 16. Trouble at home -- 17. First steps to peace -- 18. Mixed fortunes -- 19. Hero in Jerusalem, villain in Damascus -- 20. The rocky road to Camp David -- 21. Bargaining for peace: vision and reality -- 22. Breakthrough: anger and tears -- 23. Unfulfilled hopes: the road to tragedy -- 24. Death on Victory Parade -- Conclusion: Reflections on a tragedy
Print version record
This is the first major study of President Anwar Sadat by a journalist who came to know him well in the last few years of his life. Joseph Finklestone became intrigued by the unlikely and amazing story of Sadat's rise to power from an uncompromising beginning as a boy born into poverty, a fanatical, histrionic nationalist who spent years in prison. Emerging from prison as both an adventurer and an idealist, Sadat used his coolness and oratory to help Colonel Nasser's
Free Officers stage a successful revolution and overthrow King Farouk. On Nasser's death Sadat took over the presidency, to the surprise and chagrin of his left-wing Soviet-orientated opponents who underestimated his abilities. The book describes how Sadat appeared to dismiss Soviet Army advisers while secretly retaining links with Brezhnev for his own purposes; how he surprised Israel and the Americans by launching the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and, though defeated
Managed to save his army from destruction; how, with the help of Henry Kissinger, he began to plan peace with Israel and caused a world sensation by travelling to Jerusalem to address the Knesset. After signing the peace agreement with Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the U.S. President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in March 1979, Sadat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the Israeli leader. This mark of Western approval aroused resentment among those
Arab leaders who felt he had betrayed the cause of Arab unity, a view which to Sadat's mind revealed their ignorance and petty-mindedness. Sadat's final years were embittered by his feeling that although he had achieved the great breakthrough by making peace with Israel, he had failed to give his people economic security. At the same time he was threatened and eventually assassinated by fanatics who misused Islam for their own fundamentalist endsthe same people who have
Since carried out terrorist attacks all over the world. Like Saddat, Yitzhak Rabin was a visionary, creator and a victim of a ruthless assassin. Both saw the need for concessions to be made for the sake of peace, and both were brutally gunned down at a moment when they began to taste the fruits of their hard and painful endeavours
Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xii) and index
Prologue: Meeting the President -- 1. The peasant -- 2. Search for an identity -- 3. Traumatic years in prison -- 4. Crucial meeting with Jihan -- 5. Sadat and Nasser in conflict -- 6. Road to catastrophe and renewal -- 7. Sadat the surprise President -- 8. Sadat starts a new revolution -- 9. War and the great deception -- 10. How Soviet leaders joined in Sadat's deception game -- 11. The October explosion -- 12. Kissinger enters the scene -- 13. Towards a breakthrough -- 14. Breaking a psychological barrier -- 15. Looking to Jerusalem -- 16. Trouble at home -- 17. First steps to peace -- 18. Mixed fortunes -- 19. Hero in Jerusalem, villain in Damascus -- 20. The rocky road to Camp David -- 21. Bargaining for peace: vision and reality -- 22. Breakthrough: anger and tears -- 23. Unfulfilled hopes: the road to tragedy -- 24. Death on Victory Parade -- Conclusion: Reflections on a tragedy
Print version record
- Access-restricted-item
- true
- Addeddate
- 2019-12-20 02:50:54
- Boxid
- IA1746716
- Camera
- USB PTP Class Camera
- Collection_set
- printdisabled
- External-identifier
-
urn:oclc:record:862746217
urn:lcp:anwarsadatvision0000fink:lcpdf:7fdddc20-6f25-4810-8a2c-096335ad0207
urn:lcp:anwarsadatvision0000fink:epub:3819a8ef-f1b0-4b49-879f-b9a87e1b47f4
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- anwarsadatvision0000fink
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t5cc95b9p
- Invoice
- 1652
- Isbn
-
9781135195588
1135195587
9781315035864
1315035863
9781135195656
113519565X
9781135195724
1135195722
9780714634876
- Ocr
- ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR)
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.16
- Old_pallet
- IA17310
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL15167916M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL3747468W
- Page_number_confidence
- 86.42
- Pages
- 354
- Ppi
- 300
- Republisher_date
- 20191221122752
- Republisher_operator
- associate-genevieve-dimiao@archive.org
- Republisher_time
- 943
- Scandate
- 20191221024655
- Scanner
- station37.cebu.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- cebu
- Scribe3_search_catalog
- isbn
- Scribe3_search_id
- 9780714634876
- Source
- removed
- Tts_version
- 3.2-rc-2-g0d7c1ed
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 862746217
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
comment
Reviews
There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to
write a review.
178 Views
7 Favorites
DOWNLOAD OPTIONS
No suitable files to display here.
IN COLLECTIONS
Books for People with Print Disabilities Internet Archive BooksUploaded by station37.cebu on