A world of trouble : the White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror / Patrick Tyler.
Tyler, Patrick.
2010
DS63.2.U5 T95 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
A world of trouble : the White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror / Patrick Tyler.
Author
Tyler, Patrick.
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
ISBN
9780374532000 (pbk.)
0374532001 (pbk.)
Publication Details
New York : Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Language
English
Description
638 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
DS63.2.U5 T95 2010
Summary
Tyler draws on newly opened presidential archives to dramatize the approach to the Middle East across U.S. presidencies from Eisenhower to George W. Bush, showing how each president has managed to undo the policies of his predecessor, often provoking anger against America.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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America in the Middle East
The Arab awakening : Eisenhower, Nasser, and Suez
The Six-Day War : Johnson and Israel
Nixon and Brezhnev : Cold War and International Terror
Nixon and Kissinger : Yom Kippur : the October War
Jimmy Carter : Camp David and the struggle with Menachem Begin
Carter and the Shah : Khomeini's revolution
The shame of Lebanon : Reagan's warriors in the Middle East
The Iran-Contra affair : the clash of Saudi and Israeli influence
Nebuchadnezzar-land : Saddam Hussein and the Persian Gulf War
Bill Clinton : tilting at peace, flailing at Saddam
Clinton : fight from terror, lost peace
George W. Bush : a world of trouble.

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