Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present.(Book review)

The Historian | June 22, 2009| | Copyright

Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present. By Michael B. Oren. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. Pp. xxi, 737. $29.95.)

Israeli scholar Michael B. Oren has a Ph.D. in history and is a fellow at the Shalem Institute in Jerusalem, a conservative think tank backed by William Kristol. This sweeping account of America and the Middle East has all the trappings of scholarship, including one hundred twenty-seven pages of footnotes and bibliography. But despite the author's often brilliant prose and occasionally balanced comments, ...

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