The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square

433 Pages·2011·2.8 MB·English

by  Steven A. Cook

the struggle for egypt
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steven a. cook
THE STRUGGLE FOR
EGYPT
From Nasser
to Tahrir Square
A Council on Foreign Relations Book
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Cook, Steven A.
The struggle for Egypt : from Nasser to Tahrir Square / Steven A. Cook.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0–19–979526–0 (alk. paper)
1. Egypt—Politics and government—1952–1970. 2. Egypt—Politics and
government—1970–1981. 3. Egypt—Politics and government—1981– I. Title.
DT107.827.C64 2011
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for mom,
mia charlotte,
and mia’s namesake, the late michael cook
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If the ruling class has lost its consensus, i.e. is no longer leading but
only “dominant,” exercising coercive force alone, this means precisely
that the great masses have become detached from their traditional
ideologies, and no longer believe what they used to believe previously,
etc. The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the
new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid
symptoms appear.
Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Maps xiii
Introduction 1
one Egypt for the Egyptians 9
two The Rise of the Offi cers 39
three Setback and Revolt 64
four Hero of the Crossing 108
five A Tale of Two Egypts 155
six Radar Contact Lost 210
seven Uprising 272
Notes 308
Bibliography 342
Index 383
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