Book Review: Power, Faith, and Fantasy/ America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, by Michael B. Oren
From the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Jan. 28, 2007
 ”Around the time of the War of Independence, America’s main contact with the Middle East consisted in trading Caribbean rum for Turkish opium. It’s hard not to wish, reading the epic story of this 230-year relationship, now usefully condensed into a single well-researched volume, that things could have remained as simple as the swapping of your recreational poison for mine…” [Read review]
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