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The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World

by Afterlives with Kara Cooney & Ancient Heros & Earth Ancients & Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria & The Daily Stoic with Ryan Holiday & WGTD’s The Morning Show with Greg Berg

Written in the tradition of historians like Stacy Schiff and Amanda Foreman who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country’s 3,000-year empire and its meaning today. In a new era when democracies around the world are

Publisher

National Geographic Society

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

400

ISBN

9781426221965