A01=Owen Bennett Jones
Author_Owen Bennett Jones
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Product details
- ISBN 9780300154757
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A fascinating look at Pakistan’s past, an inside account of its recent history, and a knowledgeable assessment of its future option
“[A] lucid and sobering examination. . . . Owen Bennett Jones has delivered a well-crafted, clear, balanced and often quite lively account that should be immensely useful.”—Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post Book World (on the first edition)
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Owen Bennett Jones’ market-leading account of this critical modern state includes fresh material on the Taliban insurgency, the Musharraf years, the return and subsequent assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and the unlikely election as president of Asif Ali Zardari.
“[A] lucid and sobering examination. . . . Owen Bennett Jones has delivered a well-crafted, clear, balanced and often quite lively account that should be immensely useful.”—Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post Book World (on the first edition)
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Owen Bennett Jones’ market-leading account of this critical modern state includes fresh material on the Taliban insurgency, the Musharraf years, the return and subsequent assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and the unlikely election as president of Asif Ali Zardari.
Owen Bennett Jones was a BBC correspondent in Pakistan between 1998 and 2001 and witnessed firsthand many of the events that brought General Musharraf to power. He has written for the Guardian, Financial Times, and Independent newspapers, as well as the London Review of Books and Prospect magazine.
