Civility in America Series: Karen Elliott House, Author of The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia

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An evening with author Karen Elliott House, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, former Wall Street Journal publisher and author of The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia.

Based on exclusive interviews and more than 40 years of covering the Arab kingdom, House's eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reveals a leader who is a reformer determined to modernize his kingdom but also an autocrat who jails political opponents and rival princes to assure his grip on power.

Book sale and signing by Elm Street Books.

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Karen Elliott House is a former executive of Dow Jones & Company, publisher of the The Wall Street Journal, and former chair of the Rand Corp. She is also the author of On Saudi Arabia: It’s People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Presented in partnership with The Dilenschneider Group and Hearst Connecticut Media Group.