Book · 2012 · History
Libya
The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi
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So the wonderful book uh Libya: The Rise and Fall of Gaddafi argues that Reagan's obsession with Gaddafi actually helped the Colonel. He'd been widely unliked uh before this point.
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Libya by Alison Pargeter is a historical nonfiction work detailing the political rise and fall of Muammar Gaddafi alongside the complex internal dynamics of the Libyan state. Robert Evans discussed the book across two episodes of Behind the Bastards in July 2018. In the first episode, Evans cited Pargeter's volume as a major source for his research and introduced a specific biographical anecdote regarding Gaddafi's school years. During the second episode, Evans returned to the book to explain how international pressure and hostility, particularly Ronald Reagan's intense focus and obsession with the Libyan leader, inadvertently aided Gaddafi politically. Evans noted that this foreign antagonism helped elevate Gaddafi's status and improve his standing as a prominent symbol of resistance at a time when he had previously been widely unliked by the international community and domestic rivals alike. The podcast host drew upon Pargeter's historical analysis to illustrate how Western foreign policy blunders often backfired during the late twentieth century.
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Robert Evans So the wonderful book uh Libya: The Rise and Fall of Gaddafi argues that Reagan's obsession with Gaddafi ac… 2
“So the wonderful book uh Libya: The Rise and Fall of Gaddafi argues that Reagan's obsession with Gaddafi actually helped the Colonel. He'd been widely unliked uh before this point.”
“Here's an anecdote about him from Alison Pargeter's Libya: The Rise and Fall of Gaddafi, which was one of the major sources for this podcast.”
