Kazakhstan: Surprises and Stereotypes after 20 years of Independence
Acclaimed biographer Jonathan Aitken revisits Kazakhstan and tells the story of a country that in twenty short years has gone from an impoverished and chaotic Central Asian state to the region's economic and political powerhouse - a young country whose 16 million people have their eyes fixed optimistically on the future.
After his roundly praised biography of Kazakhstan's President in Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan, Aitken returns to the modern, exotic and oil rich nation state that is of key strategic importance in the 21st century.
THE AUTHOR
Jonathan Aitken is the author of award winning biographies of Richard Nixon and John Newton. He is also well known as an academic lecturer, public speaker and as a writer for many magazines and newspapers. He is a regular columnist for The American Spectator.
In 2009, Jonathan Aitken wrote Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan, the unknown story of how the most brutally oppressed of the Soviet republics is being transformed by its first President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, into the stable, significant powerhouse of the Steppes.
