The Man In The White Sharkskin Suit (my Family's Exodus From Old Cairo To The New World) (hardcover)

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Price Range:$15$25 Average Price:$19 —— In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit. But with the fall of King Farouk and Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets...



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The Man In The White Sharkskin Suit (my Family's Exodus From Old Cairo To The New World) (hardcover)
The Man In The White Sharkskin Suit (my Family's Exodus From Old Cairo To The New World) (hardcover)

The Daughter Of A Once-successful Jewish Boulevardier Traces Her Youth In Post-world War Ii Cairo Before And After Gamal Abdel Nasser's Nationalization Of Egyptian Industry, An Event That Caused Her Family To Lose Everything And Forced Them To Flee To America. 30,000 First Printing. - By Lucette Lagnado - Hardcover

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit. But with the fall of King Farouk and Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets...

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Hardcover, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Hardcover, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

This poignant and breathtaking memoir from an award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter recounts the exile of her family from Egypt and her fathers heroic and tragic struggle to survive his riches to rags trajectory.

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The Man In The White Sharkskin Suit (my Family's Exodus From Old Cairo To The New World) (hardcover)
The Man In The White Sharkskin Suit (my Family's Exodus From Old Cairo To The New World) (hardcover)

The Daughter Of A Once-successful Jewish Boulevardier Traces Her Youth In Post-world War Ii Cairo Before And After Gamal Abdel Nasser's Nationalization Of Egyptian Industry, An Event That Caused Her Family To Lose Everything And Forced Them To Flee To America. 30,000 First Printing. - By Lucette Lagnado - Hardcover

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, dark bar of the Nile Hilton, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit. But with the fall of King Farouk and Nasser's nationalization of Egyptian industry, Leon and his family lose everything. As streets...

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