{"product_id":"brother-number-one-a-political-biography-of-pol-pot-9780813335100","title":"Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Excellent and absorbing.... Indispensable to any attempt to understand the Khmer Rouge.\" -William Shawcross New York Review of Books \"A dramatic account of Pol Pots rise to power in 1975 and his direction of Cambodias autogenocide.... David Chandler has given us an absorbing and authoritative portrait of Brother Number One and a fascinating insight into Cambodias cruel history.\" Frederick Z. Brown New York Times Book Review \"This first biography of Pol Pot is valuable not just for what it tells us about Cambodias past  but for helping us understand the present and perhaps predict the future.... Superbly written  pioneering work. Chandler makes up for the paucity of details about Pol Pots life by painting a rich tableau of his times and setting out the historical context of his policies.... The only plausible portrait of the man whose gentle persona and brutal actions remain an enduring paradox.\" -Nayan Chanda Far Eastern Economic Review \"This book is particularly welcome. Although a work of scholarship  it has the fast pace of a thriller.... Chandlers analysis rings true  and he has no ideological axe to grind; he is willing to go where the evidence takes him.\" -Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly \"Chandlers gracefully written biography of the enigmatic revolutionary of this century  Saloth Sar (alias Pol Pot)  deserves wide readership.... Chandler successfully walks a fine line  condemning Pol Pot and all his works  but trying to understand what motivates him.... Recommended without reservation.\" -Choice \"No biographer could hope for a more elusive or enigmatic subject than Pol Pot. From interviews and extensive research  Chandler pieces together a riveting account of the life of this inaccessible man who was alternately mild mannered  cultivated  and genocidal.... Highly recommended.\" -Library Journal In Cambodias recent  tragic past  no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. In this revised edition of the first book-length study of the man  the historian David P. Chandler throws light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot  illuminating the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his entourage against the background of post-World War II events  providing a key to understanding this horrific  pivotal period of Cambodian history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651955613749,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813335108","price":48.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813335100.jpg?v=1781847406","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/brother-number-one-a-political-biography-of-pol-pot-9780813335100","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}