TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tyler,Patrick
TI  - A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror 
SN  - 9780374292898 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - DS63.2.U5 T95 2009
U1  - 327.7305609045 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-615) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -