Socialist Iraq: A Study in Iraqi Politics Since 1968

Once again Professor Khadduri puts Western readers in his debt. In completing his trilogy on the politics of Iraq since independence, he uses his unique qualifications and sources to provide a wealth of information on the little-known recent history of that country. With scholarly objectivity he generally lets the documents and the main actors - Baathists, Communists and others, many of whom he interviewed - speak for themselves. The result, for better or for worse, is to present the regime almost at face value.