| The Sheikh of Baghdad: Tales of Celebrity and Terror from Pro Wrestling's General Adnan Contributor(s): Alkaissy, Adnan (Author), Bernstein, Ross (Author) |
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ISBN: 1572437308 ISBN-13: 9781572437302 Publisher: Triumph Books (IL) OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2005 Annotation: The amazing story of Adnan Al-Kaissy chronicles the former pro wrestling star's life from being born and growing up in Iraq to becoming a college football star and eventually a star in the sports entertainment realm. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Wrestling - Biography & Autobiography | Sports |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005041845 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.32" W x 9.16" (0.86 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Saddam Hussein used a boyhood friend of his as a smoke screen when he was grabbing control of Iraq in the 1960s. Knowing that the country was enamored with wrestling, Hussein forced his former classmate, Adnan Al-Kaissy, to wrestle in giant spectacles that the public loved. Much like the gladiator matches staged by Roman Caesars, Hussein's wrestling matches featuring Al-Kaissy were intended to entertain and appease the masses while Hussein became dictator. Al-Kaissy became a living legend in Iraq, amassing great wealth and popularity, but he left all of that - and more than $2 million in the bank--when he fled in the middle of the night and bribed his way out of the country. Al-Kaissy became known to generations of wrestling fans in U.S. as "Chief Billy White Wolf", "The Sheik" and most famously as "General Adnan." No other celerity has a story similar to Al-Kaissy's, and his autobiography will keep sports fans and political enthusiasts equally raptured. |