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Download or read book Coup D'etat written by Edward Luttwak and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coup is the most frequently attempted method of changing government, and the most successful. Coup dâe(tm)Ã%tat outlines the mechanism of the coup and analyzes the conditionsâe"political, military, and social, that gives rise to it. In doing so, the book sheds much light on societies where power does indeed grow out of the barrel of a gun and the role of law is a concept little understood.