Saudi, Inc.
This book is being released in a paperback edition on September 10th, so I figured I'd re-post this review (I've been wanting to read it again and am planning on doing that with one of my sisters who I think will enjoy it as well): I don't know that I would have EVER thought that a book about the Kings of Saudi Arabia and an oil company would have been interesting. But this book is! I don't just mean that the book is well written (it is) but Wald actually seems very enthusiastic about the topic and that carries over to the reader. Or at least it did to me. I almost want to laugh at myself for how interesting and intriguing I found this book, " SAUDI, INC. The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power" by Ellen R. Wald . Abdul Aziz, or ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia (never realized where the name came from, sort of a 'duh' moment when I found that out: SAUD-i Arabia) was quite an interesting guy. He started out by conqueri...