Michael farquhar biography

  • MICHAEL FARQUHAR, a former writer and editor at The Washington Post, is the bestselling author of the critically-praised Behind the Palace Doors, as well as the national bestsellers A Treasury of Royal.
  • Michael Farquhar, a former writer and editor at The Washington Post, is the bestselling author of the critically praised Behind the Palace Doors.
  • Michael Farquhar, author of A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans; Sir Michael Farquhar, 7th Baronet (born 1938), of the Farquhar baronets.

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    Focus on Michael Farquhar

    Were you always interested in history? My grandmother was English. She started me off with stories of beheadings and all of Henry VIII’s wives. Later I moved to great historical fiction like Exodus and Mila 18 by Leon Uris and Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. inom was also fascinated by books like the People’sAlmanac and The Book of Lists. I often wonder why high school reading lists have Anna Karenina instead of adventure stories.

    Any issues in history that particularly attract you? While working on the Tsarist research, I was fascinated bygd the notion of unlimited power set against greed, courage, and envy.

    Can you give examples of your favorite deceptions? Or a favorite forgotten American? As far as a deception, Gaston Means, a former Bureau of Investigation officer, murder suspect, and grifter, persuaded Evalyn Walsh McLean [American mining heiress and owner of the Hope Diamond] that he was in touch with the kidnappers of the Li

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    Michael Farquhar

    Michael Farquhar, a former writer and editor at The Washington Post, is the bestselling author of the critically-praised BEHIND THE PALACE DOORS, as well as the national bestsellers A TREASURY OF ROYAL SCANDALS, A TREASURY OF GREAT AMERICAN SCANDALS, A TREASURY OF DECEPTION and A TREASURY OF FOOLISHLY FORGOTTEN AMERICANS. His work has been featured in a number of publications, including American History magazine, and he has appeared as a commentator on such programs as the History Channel's top-rated "Russia: Land of the Tsars" and "The French Revolution."

    Books by Michael Farquhar

    Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

    by Michael Farquhar- History, Nonfiction
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    Dr Michael Farquhar

    Michael completed his PhD in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also holds an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. He has been an LSE Fellow and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS.

    He is currently undertaking research on the history and politics of policing in twentieth-century Egypt, with an eye to the ways in which discourses and practices of policing have been implicated in the maintenance and refashioning of social, political and economic order.

    Michael has also written on Saudi state-funded Islamic missionary work in the twentieth century, addressing themes of Salafism, Islamic education, religious transnationalism and religious economies. His book on this subject, Circuits of Faith: Migration, Education and the Wahhabi Mission (Stanf