Robert Lacey

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born

January 03, 1944 in The United Kingdom

gender

male

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http://www.robertlacey.com/

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History, Biographies & Memoirs

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Robert Lacey is a British historian noted for his original research, which gets him close to - and often living alongside - his subjects. He is the author of numerous international bestsellers.

After writing his first works of historical biography, Robert, Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Ralegh, Robert wrote Majesty, his pioneering biography of Queen Elizabeth II. Published in 1977, Majesty remains
acknowledged as the definitive study of British monarchy - a subject on which the author continues to write and lecture around the world, appearing regularly on ABC's Good Morning America and on CNN's Larry King Live.

The Kingdom, a study of Saudi Arabia published in 1981, is similarly acknowledged as required reading for businessmen, diplomats and stu...more

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Books by Robert Lacey

Average rating: 3.84 · 2,721 ratings · 453 reviews · 41 distinct works

	The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger 3.78 avg rating — 1,159 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia 3.96 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Great Tales from English History: The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More (Volume 1) 3.93 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Great Tales from English History (Book 2): Joan of Arc, the Princes in the Tower, Bloody Mary, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Isaac Newton, and More 3.89 avg rating — 191 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Great Tales from English History (Volume 3): Captain Cook, Samuel Johnson, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, Edward the Abdicator, and More 4.04 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Great Tales from English History: A Treasury of True Stories about the Extraordinary People -- Knights and Knaves, Rebels and Heroes, Queens and Commoners -- Who Made Britain Great 4.09 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa'Ud 3.99 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Grace 3.70 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life 3.75 avg rating — 69 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II 3.70 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“أعدم ال سعود جهيمان لكنهم جعلوا من افكاره نهجا للدولة”
― Robert Lacey, Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

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“Better that anger should be directed into jihad abroad than into Iran-style revolution at home.”
― Robert Lacey, Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

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“America certainly did its part. But doing the sums, it is now clear that through the eight years of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, 1981-89, Saudi Arabia actually provided more material assistance to the world’s varied assortment of anti Communist “freedom fighters” than did the United States, thus hastening the end of the Cold War and helping accomplish the downfall of the “Evil Empire.”
― Robert Lacey, Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia

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