An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious Rise to power.
The Woman Who Would Be King traces the unconventional life of an almost-forgotten pharaoh and explores our complicated reactions to women in power..
Constructing a rich narrative history using the artifacts that remain, noted Egyptologist Kara Cooney offers a remarkable interpretation of how Hatshepsut rapidly but methodically consolidated power--and why she fell from public favor just as quickly.
She successfully negotiated a path from the royal nursery to the very pinnacle of authority, and her reign saw one of Ancient Egypt\'s most prolific building periods.
Shrewdly operating the levers of Power to emerge as Egypt\'s second female pharaoh, Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political Power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention.
At just over twenty, Hatshepsut out-maneuvered the mother of Thutmose III, the infant king, for a seat on the throne, and ascended to the rank of pharaoh.
Her failure to produce a male heir, however, paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king.
Hatshepsut--the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt\'s throne--was expected to bear the sons who Would legitimize the reign of her father\'s family.
An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious Rise to power
