The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
Kara Cooney, "The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt"
English | ISBN: 0307956768 | 2014 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0307956768 | 2014 | 320 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.
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. Her failure to produce a male heir, however, paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. 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.
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. 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.
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