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Hard Cover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Standard used reading condition or better. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Fine unread condition beige boards, black spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Michael B. Oren; Author Dedication; Chronology; Prologue: A Passage to Glory; Introduction: Recovering a Pivotal Past; Epilogue: A Profound and Visceral Gratitude; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates, black-and-white photographic frontispiece, and color illustrated front and rear endpaper maps. "The first comprehensive history of America's involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. Beginning with the Barbary Wars of the eighteenth century and extending to the conflicts of today, the United States has been profoundly involved in the Middle East. America fought its first foreign war there and established its navy to meet a Middle Eastern threat. The region played a seminal role in shaping American identity - from the making of the U.S. Constitution to the writing of "The Star Spangled Banner." Americans also helped define the Middle East by forging its borders and introducing notions of national identity. The Middle East in turn inspired works by some of America's preeminent artists, including Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, and Mark Twain, and lured prominent leaders, among them Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. The region also attracted generations of Americans who, impelled by faith, sought to educate, modernize, and proselytize its peoples. Popularly perceived as a land of exoticism and danger, the Middle East has provided the backdrop for innumerable plays, songs, and movies. The object of controversial policies, it has formed the focus of intense public debate. Decision makers throughout the history of the United States have grappled with dilemmas in the Middle East and struggled to surmount its challenges. Power, Faith, and Fantasy tells the remarkable story of America's 230-year relationship with this crucial area. Drawing on a vast range of government documents, personal correspondence, and the memoirs of merchants, missionaries, and travelers, the book reconstructs the diverse channels through which the United States has interacted with the Middle East. The book also examines America's artistic legacy in the Middle East, exploring the dynamic ways in which popular culture in the United States has portrayed the region and its peoples. By distinguishing the recurrent themes in America's Middle East involvement and by tracing their evolution over the course of more than two centuries, the book reveals the continuity that binds this vital narrative in the nation's history. Masterfully narrated and compellingly told, Power, Faith, and Fantasy is a deeply original work by one of our finest historians." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Chu, Calvin (jacket design); Miller, Roman J. (jacket photograph); Bauer, Jerry (author photograph) (illustratore).…