Power, Faith, and Fantasy

By Michael B. Oren,

Book cover of Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present

Book description

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…

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1 author picked Power, Faith, and Fantasy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Threading provocative arguments and creative narrations, this book is an outline and an inspiration to learn about US engagement with the Middle East since the Ottoman ages. My students loved it in uncommon read seminars, eventually appreciating our species produced a transatlantic history that is engaging and more entangled with the Middle East than it came to be imagined to this day. 

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