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The first comprehensive history of America’s military, political, and intellectual involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush.
Interview with Michael Oren:
Three Hundred Years of History: What Ronald Reagan didn’t learn, the poor sales of Moby Dick, and Statue of Liberty’s Egyptian origins — and where Americans need to go from here. By Glenn Frankel, Pulitzer-Prize-winning former reporter, editor and foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, and visiting journalism professor at Stanford University. Read here... |
Power, Faith, and Fantasy America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present W. W. Norton & Company, January 15, 2007 Michael Oren discussing Power, Faith, and Fantasy:
Power, Faith and Fantasy is now in Paperback
and climbing the NY Times Bestseller List. Click here for a comprehensive compilation of hardback reviews. “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.” Niall Ferguson,
author of Colossus and The War of the World “A landmark achievement. This is an absolutely vital work that will change the way Americans look at their role in the Middle East and beyond. The story is riveting and the research encyclopedic.” Walter Russell Mead,
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Michael B. Orenis a Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based research facility, where he specializes in the diplomatic and military history of the Middle East. He has written extensively for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic, of which he is a contributing editor, and has been interviewed on CNN, Fox, The Charlie Rose Show, The Daily Show, and Today. He is the CBS Middle East expert. Read more... |
Six Days of War
June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Oxford University Press June 3, 2002 "Michael Oren has taken a fresh and even-handed look at Israel's seminal Six Day War, utilizing recently declassified secret documents, interviews and painstaking research." Dr. Henry Kissinger
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