Patrick Tyler, "A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror"

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The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war. But it was not always so—and as Patrick Tyler shows in this thrilling chronicle of American misadventures in the region, the story of American presidents’ dealings there is one of mixed motives, skulduggery, deceit, and outright foolishness, as well as of policymaking and diplomacy.

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. He takes us into the Oval Office and shows how our leaders made momentous decisions; at the same time, the sweep of this narrative—from the Suez crisis to the Iran hostage crisis to George W. Bush’s catastrophe in Iraq—lets us see the big picture as never before. Tyler tells a story of presidents being drawn into the affairs of the region against their will, being kept in the dark by local potentates, being led astray by grasping subordinates, and making decisions about the internal affairs of countries they hardly understand. Above all, he shows how each president has managed to undo the policies of his predecessor, often fomenting both anger against America on the streets of the region and confusion at home.

A World of Trouble is the Middle East book we need now: compulsively readable, free of cant and ideology, and rich in insight about the very human challenges a new president will face as he or she tries to restore America’s standing in the region.

From Publishers Weekly
In this epic, remarkably readable history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East from Eisenhower to Bush II, Washington Post reporter Tyler uses an up-close, journalistic style to depict the power struggles and compromises that have defined the past half-century. Tyler focuses on key turning points in U.S.–Middle East relations and documents the conversations and real-time decision-making processes of the presidents, cabinet members and other key figures. Readers are treated to an intimate view of Eisenhower's careful, steady diplomacy during the Suez crisis, Kissinger's egocentric and fateful decision to fully arm Israel in the October war of 1973 while Nixon struggled through the Watergate scandal, and the tangled web of communication and intentional deceit during the Reagan administration that led to the Iran-Contra scandal. Tyler makes the issues and relationships clear without resorting to oversimplification or ideological grandstanding, and his journalistic instincts steer him toward direct quotation and telling anecdotes rather than generalization. Readers in the market for an examination of how leadership has embroiled the U.S. in the Middle East are well-advised to consult this riveting text.

Contents

“List of Illustrations
Prologue: America in the Middle East
1 The Arab Awakening: Eisenhower, Nasser, and Suez
2 The Six-Day War: Johnson and Israel
3 Nixon and Brezhnev: Cold War and International Terror
4 Nixon and Kissinger: Yom Kippur—The October War
5 Jimmy Carter: Camp David and the Struggle with Menachem Begin
6 Carter and the Shah: Khomeini's Revolution
7 The Shame of Lebanon: Reagan's Warriors in the Middle East
8 The Iran-Contra Affair: The Clash of Saudi and Israeli Influence
9 Nebuchadnezzar-Land: Saddam Hussein and the Persian Gulf War
10 Bill Clinton: Tilting at Peace, Flailing at Saddam
11 Clinton: Flight from Terror; Lost Peace
12 George W. Bush: A World of Trouble
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index”
Tags: WorldPolitics, MiddleEast

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