Power Faith & Fantasy Pa

by Oren,Michael B.

• ISBN13: 9780393330304
• ISBN10: 0393330303
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive history of America#xE2;#x80;#x99;s involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, #xE2;#x80;#x9C;If you think America#xE2;#x80;#x99;s entanglement in the Middle East began with Roosevelt and Truman, Michael Oren#xE2;#x80;#x99;s deeply researched and brilliantly written history will be a revelation to you, as it was to me. With its cast of fascinating characters#xE2;#x80;#x94;earnest missionaries, maverick converts, wide-eyed tourists, and even a nineteenth-century George Bush#xE2;#x80;#x94;Power, Faith, and Fantasy is not only a terrific read, it is also proof that you don#xE2;#x80;#x99;t really understand an issue until you know its history.#xE2;#x80;#x9D;

Author Biography

Michael B. Oren is a senior fellow at the Shalem Center

Table of Contents

Chronology	p. xvii
Prologue: A Passage to Glory	p. 3
Introduction: Recovering a Pivotal Past	p. 9
Early America Encounters the Middle East
A Mortal and Mortifying Threat	p. 17
The Hostile and Ethereal Orient	p. 41
A Crucible of American Identity	p. 51
Illuminating and Emancipating the World	p. 80
The Middle East and Antebellum America
Confluence and Conflict	p. 101
Manifest Middle Eastern Destiny	p. 122
Under American Eyes	p. 149
The Civil War and Reconstruction
Fission	p. 177
Rebs and Yanks on the Nile	p. 190
The Trumpet That Never Calls Retreat	p. 210
American Onslaught	p. 228
Resurgence	p. 246
The Age of Imperialism
Empires at Dawn	p. 257
Imperial Piety	p. 273
Imperial Myths	p. 297
A Region Renamed and Reordered	p. 307
America, the Middle East, and the Great War
Spectators of Catastrophe	p. 325
Action or Nonaction?	p. 340
An American Movement Is Born	p. 351
Arise, O Arabs, and Awake!	p. 367
The First Middle East Peace Process	p. 376
Fantasies Revived	p. 398
Oil, War, and Ascendancy
From Bibles to Drill Bits	p. 407
An Insoluble Conflict Evolves	p. 420
A Torch for the Middle East	p. 446
The Middle East and the Man from Missouri	p. 475
In Search of Pax Americana
Harmony and Hegemony	p. 505
The Thirty Years' War	p. 550
Epilogue: A Profound and Visceral Gratitude	p. 595
Afterword	p. 605
Notes	p. 613
Bibliography	p. 693
Acknowledgments	p. 743
Illustration Credits	p. 747
Index	p. 751
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