From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, former foreign editor, correspondent, and publisher of The Wall Street Journal—a uniquely informed, authoritative, and illuminating look at Saudi Arabia today.

No other journalist brings the knowledge and insight to the subject of Saudi Arabia that Karen House brings: she has spent the last thirty years deeply immersed in its society. Now, through analysis, anecdote, observation, and extensive interviews, she breaks through the vagueness and confusion that surround the world's largest exporter of oil (which underpins our own way of life). She sheds light on Saudi Arabia's leaders, the inner and outer lives of its people (among them: university students who look and act much like their U.S. counterparts—but only inside the walls of the universities; educated women struggling for increased opportunity and freedom; Western-educated business men frustrated with the pace of change), and the inherent complexities of its regional setting. And she explores in depth what all of this portends for Saudi Arabia's future—and for ours.