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 Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan: His Life and Times
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Author: Stanley Wolpert | ISBN: 978-0-19-577547-1 | Format: Paperback | Pages: 378 | Weight: 1.54 lbs | Pub. Date: 2007 | Publisher: Oxford University Press
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No individual in the history of Pakistan - indeed, few people in modern history - have achieved greater popular power or suffered so ingnominious a death as Zulfikar Au Bhutto. Bhutto’s political rise and fall were so meteoric that his name became a legend in the land he once ruled.
This volume traces the life of Zulfikar Au Bhutto from the colourful days of his feudal ancestors to his imprisonment and hanging at the hands of a military dictatorship.
Bhutto was a charismatic and contradictory man. He climbed to the heights of power with amazing swiftness, winning a seat in the central Cabinet of Pakistan at the unprecedented age of thirty. Wolpert weaves Pakistan’s turbulent politics and repeated wars with India together with Bhutto’s ambitious manoeuvring, tracing his rise to Foreign Minister, the founding of his own political party, and finally leadership of the nation. The story of Bhutto’s sometimes inspiring, sometimes quixotic career is a fascinating one, and Wolpert tells it brilliantly, through Bhutto‘s triumphant years in the mid-1970s, the military coup in 1977, and his treacherous imprisonment and execution in 1979.
Wolpert’s intensively researched, engagingly written account captures the scheming, the grandeur, and the contradictions of one of modern history’s most fascinating figures.
Stanley Wolpert is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India, Gandhi’s Passion, Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny, Jinnah of Pakistan, and A New History of India.
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