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Power, Faith, and Fantasy America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present

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ISBN-10: 0393330303

ISBN-13: 9780393330304

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael B. Oren

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The history of America's political, military, and intellectual involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. "Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years."Christopher Dickey,Newsweek From the first cannonballs fired by American warships at North African pirates to the conquest of Falluja by the Marinesfrom the early American explorers who probed the sources of the Nile to the diplomats who strove for Arab-Israeli peacethe United States has been dramatically involved in the Middle East. For well over two centuries, American statesmen, merchants, and missionaries, both men and women, have had a profound impact on the shaping of this crucial…    
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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 864
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.14" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English

Michael B. Oren, Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center, has written numerous works on the Middle East, including the New York Times bestsellers Six Days of War and Power, Faith, and Fantasy. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown universities, and currently serves as Israel's ambassador to the United States.

Chronology
Prologue: A Passage to Glory
Introduction: Recovering a Pivotal Past
Early America Encounters the Middle East
A Mortal and Mortifying Threat
The Hostile and Ethereal Orient
A Crucible of American Identity
Illuminating and Emancipating the World
The Middle East and Antebellum America
Confluence and Conflict
Manifest Middle Eastern Destiny
Under American Eyes
The Civil War and Reconstruction
Fission
Rebs and Yanks on the Nile
The Trumpet That Never Calls Retreat
American Onslaught
Resurgence
The Age of Imperialism
Empires at Dawn
Imperial Piety
Imperial Myths
A Region Renamed and Reordered
America, the Middle East, and the Great War
Spectators of Catastrophe
Action or Nonaction?
An American Movement Is Born
Arise, O Arabs, and Awake!
The First Middle East Peace Process
Fantasies Revived
Oil, War, and Ascendancy
From Bibles to Drill Bits
An Insoluble Conflict Evolves
A Torch for the Middle East
The Middle East and the Man from Missouri
In Search of Pax Americana
Harmony and Hegemony
The Thirty Years' War
Epilogue: A Profound and Visceral Gratitude
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index