Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
by Michael B. Oren
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Author: Michael B. OrenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-17
ISBN: 0393330303
Number of pages: 864
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Book Review: Sifting the Sands of Time for Hope
Summary: 5 Stars
Some of newborn America's first baby steps on the world stage were taken into the quicksand of Middle Eastern politics. Michael Orin draws a compelling line in the sand. Not as a challenge to cross, but a narrative line to follow. A timeline, if you will, of events enacted, of responses made, of good intentions meant.
Pick a year, any year. Pick a paper, any paper. If it was printed since 1776, the story of America in the Middle East will basically read the same, "Never ending or beginning, on an ever spinning wheel..." This well written book makes one feel as if a moth drawn irresistibly to the flame. The ending? You know it. The whole tangled mess of American Foreign Policy, the no-go efforts of NGOs (didn't we used to call them missionaries?), leaves us rubber-necking at a wreckage we cannot turn away from.
POWER, FAITH, AND FANTASY. America has not been napping, but in a Gullivereskian way, the Lilliputians of small minds from all sides has left America feeling POWERless, with a challenged FAITH, yet still clinging to the FANTASY of hope.
Reviewed by Charles Dusenbury, author MOLASBA and COMPUTER BRAIN, on Kindle.
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"Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years."-Christopher Dickey, Newsweek This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive history of America's involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, "If you think America's entanglement in the Middle East began with Roosevelt and Truman, Michael Oren's deeply researched and brilliantly written history will be a revelation to you, as it was to me. With its cast of fascinating characters-earnest missionaries, maverick converts, wide-eyed tourists, and even a nineteenth-century George Bush-Power, Faith, and Fantasy is not only a terrific read, it is also proof that you don't really understand an issue until you know its history."General Books
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