By Robert B. Satloff
This publication examines the main turbulent interval within the heritage of Jordan's ruling condo, the six years following the assassination of the kingdom's founder, Abdullah (1951-1957). these years witnessed the country's lone episode of vulnerable monarchy, while the king--the beginner Hussein or his ill-starred father, Talal--was now not the preeminent political actor within the land. really, it used to be in the course of that point on the regime used to be left within the arms of a mixture of Palestinian, Transjordanian, and Circassian royalists who had by no means earlier than wielded govt authority contained in the state. in response to unique interviews and newly published archival assets, this publication lines the single royal successions in Jordanian heritage: the eleven-month reign of the little-known Talal, and the early years of King Hussein.
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