1. Grandee of the empire -- 2. An Ottoman childhood -- 3. Education in revolution -- 4. In the shadow of the gallows -- 5. Faysai’s false dawn -- 6. Fugitivefrom the French -- 7. The great Syrian revolution -- 8. A hero’s return -- 9. Man of the people -- 10. Riad el-Solh, Zionism and the Hajj Amin al-Husayni -- 11. Ben-Gurion and the Arabs -- 12. Themaking of a Lebanese patriot -- 13. Competing identities: the battle for men’s minds -- 14. The politics of the street -- 15. The changing fortunes of war -- 16. Rashid ’Ali and ’Operation Exporter’ -- 17. Riad Bey and General Spears -- 18. The electoral challenge -- 19. The compromise of tile National Pact -- 20. The decisive battle -- 21. Painful awakening -- 22. Goodbye to the French -- 23. Master of the local scene -- 24. The unwanted war -- 25. The challenge from the revolutionaries -- 26. Murder in Amman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [768]-779) and index.