Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Photographs ix
4. Foreword xiii
5. Preface xv
6. Acknowledgments xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. My Memoirs: Half a Century of the History of Iraq and the Arab Cause
9. Dedication 51
10. 1. My Upbringing 55
11. 2. In Public Life: The Literary Forum 61
12. 3. Iraq’s Independence: The Iraqi Congress 85
13. 4. Faisal in Iraq 101
14. 5. Democracy in Iraq 117
15. 6. Oil Concessions 127
16. 7. The Hashemite-Saudi Clash 129
17. 8. On Iraqi Politics 145
18. 9. My First Term as Prime Minister 153
19. 10. ‘Abd al-Muhsin al-Sa‘dun 177
20. 11. Nuri al-Sa‘id Enters the Scene 189
21. 12. Chargé d’Affaires in Tehran 191
22. 13. At the League of Nations 225
23. 14. The Ill-Fated Coups Begin 243
24. 15. Geneva, Paris, London, Ankara 257
25. 16. Events on the Brink of War 277
26. 17. At the London Conference on the Palestine Issue 283
27. 18. Unrest in Iraq 293
28. 19. The al-Gaylani Movement and Its Outcomes 301
29. 20. The Arab League 341
30. 21. My Second Term as Prime Minister 351
31. 22. The Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1948 381
32. 23. My Third Term as Prime Minister 403
33. 24. The Era of King Faisal II 421
34. 25. The Baghdad Pact 435
35. 26. Nationalization of the Suez Canal 441
36. 27. A Hashemite-Saudi Rapprochement 465
37. 28. The Arab Union 467
38. 29. Iraq and Kuwait 475
39. 30. Iraq’s Catastrophe: July 14, 1958 479
40. 31. The View from Exile 503
41. 32. Conclusion 513
42. Index 527
43. About the Book 545