Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.(Book review)

From: Middle East Policy | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, by Robert Dreyfuss. Metropolitan Books, 2005. 388 pages. $27.50, hardcover.

This provocative book is about America's sometimes shortsighted and ill-informed alliances of convenience with Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East and South Asia that began during and survived the Cold War. Part of the publisher's "American Empire Project," Devil's Game joins a swelling tide of post-9/11 books that seek to explain how U.S. foreign policy has come to grief in the Arab and Islamic worlds.

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