The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

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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 once expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father’s circle of relatives. Her failure to produce a male heir, on the other hand, cleared the path for her fantastic rule as a cross-dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut out-maneuvered the mother of Thutmose III, the infant king, for a seat at 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 once 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 certainly one of Ancient Egypt’s most prolific building periods.

Constructing a wealthy narrative history the use of the artifacts that remain, noted Egyptologist Kara Cooney offers a remarkable interpretation of how Hatshepsut abruptly but methodically consolidated power—and why she fell from public favor just as quickly. The Woman Who Would Be King traces the unconventional life of an almost-forgotten pharaoh and explores our complicated reactions to women in power.

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