In the early 1970s Harold Pinter joined forces with director Joseph Losey and Proust scholar Barbara Bray to develop a screenplay of Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past. Pinter took more than a year to conceive and write the screenplay and called the experience "the…
The ultimate biography of the warrior-politician who founded Saudi Arabiain 1932 and created one of the world's most powerful nations.
"Ibn Saud grew to manhood living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham, and then made a careful study during his adolescence in Kuwait of the ways of the great imperial powers such as Great Britain and the Ottoma…
""A must read for every opponent of totalitarianism and partisan of a chastened or mature liberalism.""--The New Criterion
