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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Too Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Egypt's King Farouk (1920-1965), organizer of the Arab League which attacked Israel in 1948, often regarded as a corrupt, sybaritic, hypersexed autocrat, is grossly misperceived in the West, maintains Stadiem in this glitzy, unconvincing biography. |
 | | Farouk has been unfairly portrayed as a friend of the Third Reich, claims the author, arguing that the king's German sympathies were strictly a function of Anglophobia, not of anti-Semitism, and pointing to Farouk's many Jewish friends, advisers and mistresses. |
 | | Becoming king in 1920 at the age of 16 under the mindful control of various domestic Egyptian groups and the dominating power of Great Britain, Farouk ruled during a turbulent time in Egyptian and Middle East history that was marked by the creation of the Arab League, the first Arab-Israeli conflict, and heated... |
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