Saudi, Inc., Ellen R. Wald, PhD
Saudi, Inc., Ellen R. Wald, PhD
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Saudi, Inc.
The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power

Author: Ellen R. Wald, PhD

Narrator: Paul Ansdell

Unabridged: 11 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/03/2018

Synopsis

The Saudi royal family and Aramco leadership are, and almost always have been, motivated by ambitions of long-term strength and profit. They use Islamic law, traditional ideology, and harsh justice to maintain stability and their own power, but underneath the thobes and abayas and behind the religious fanaticism and illiberalism lies a sophisticated and ruthless business enterprise. Over more than a century, fed by ambition and oil wealth, al Saud (as the royal family is known) has come from having next to nothing to ruling as absolute monarchs. Their story starts with Saudi Arabia's founder, the lowly refugee Abdul Aziz, embarking on a daring gambit to reconquer his family's ancestral home: the mud-walled city of Riyadh. And it ends with al Saud's most ambitious move yet: taking Aramco, the multinational business that has made them the wealthiest family in the world, public.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on June 30, 2018

If Wald is correct (and I believe she is), I got KSA so very wrong! Unlike poorly planned and governed oil states like Venezuela, KSA has navigated a grand, long-term strategy to maximize profit and the longevity of the monarchy. They play the long game for their descendants and have diversified int......more

Goodreads review by Jo on February 17, 2019

A bizarre book that begins as a straightforward history of Saudi Arabia and its energy industry (albeit while getting multiple historical dates wrong) until halfway through it veers into a weird hagiography of Saudi Aramco and Saudi Arabia, extolling the virtues of the Kingdom, the wisdom and intell......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on February 14, 2018

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 rea......more

Goodreads review by ScienceOfSuccess on December 23, 2018

As a person never interested by the Arabian Kingdom, I feel like reading this book was a mistake. After reading it I'm not interested in it at all, not sure how it made to top 10 NYT Bestseller.......more

Goodreads review by Ali on January 01, 2019

All I can say is WOW 😳......more

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