Hugh Kennedy, Author . Da Capo $26 (376p) ISBN 978-0-306-81435-8
These days Baghdad is associated with violence and insurgency. But more than a thousand years ago, during the Abbasid caliphate, Baghdad was a center of the arts and sciences, a city of dreams and limitless opportunities. This eminently entertaining
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Hugh Kennedy, Author Nan A. Talese $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47736-9
The extravagant, soulless late 1980s art scene is the setting for Kennedy's glib and cynical second novel (after Everything Looks Impressive). Fresh out of Princeton, Fred Layton, the 22-year-old narrator, lands a job with Nelson Albright, a...
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Hugh Kennedy, Author Nan A. Talese $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-42439-4
This endearing bildungsroman depicts a college freshman confronting sexual politics and the leisure class at Yale. Kennedy does a fine job of tracing out what happens when young people who have too much time and too much money are set free from the...
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Hugh Kennedy. Basic, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-09438-7
Kennedy (The Great Arab Conquests), a medieval historian and professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London, follows the threads of the centuries-long debate within the wider Islamic community over how to establish a secular system of governance...
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