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100 1 _aTyler, Patrick.
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245 1 2 _aA World of Trouble :
_bThe White House and the Middle East--from the Cold War to the War on Terror /
_cPatrick Tyler.
260 _aNew York :
_bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
_c2010
300 _a638 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [567]-615) and index.
505 0 _aAmerica 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.
520 _aTyler 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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