Quicksand PDF
By:Geoffrey Wawro
Published on 2010-04-01 by Penguin
An unprecedented history of our involvement in the Middle East that traces our current quandaries there-in Iraq, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, and elsewhere-back to their roots almost a century ago. Geoffrey Wawro approaches America's role in the Middle East in a fundamentally new way-by encompassing the last century of the entire region, rather than focusing narrowly on a particular country or era. The result is a definitive and revelatory history whose drama, tragedy, and rich irony he relates with unprecedented verve. Wawro combed archives in the United States and Europe and traveled the Middle East to unearth new insights into the hidden motivations, backroom dealing, and outright espionage that shaped some of the most tumultuous events of the last one hundred years. Wawro offers piercing analysis of iconic events from the birth of Israel to the death of Sadat, from the Suez crisis to the energy crisis, from the Six-Day War to Desert One, from Iran-contra to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the rise of al- Qaeda. Throughout, he draws telling parallels between America's past mistakes and its current quandaries, proving that we're in today's muddle not just because of our old errors, but because we keep repeating those errors. America has juggled multiple commitments and conflicting priorities in the Middle East for nearly a century. Strands of idealism and ruthless practicality have alternated- and sometimes run together-in our policy. Quicksand untangles these strands as no history has done before by showing how our strategies unfolded over the entire century and across the entire region. We've persistently misread the intentions and motivations of every major player in the region because we've insisted on viewing them through the lens of our own culture, hopes, and fears. Most administrations since Eisenhower's have adopted their own |doctrine| for the Middle East, and almost every doctrine has failed precisely because it's a doctrine-a template into which events on the ground refuse to fit. Geoffrey Wawro's peerless and remarkably lively history is key to understanding our errors and the Middle East-at last- on its own terms.
This Book was ranked at 4 by Google Books for keyword Middle East.
Book ID of Quicksand's Books is OiS9UVotQfUC, Book which was written byGeoffrey Wawrohave ETAG "fcx3dm96c/s"
Book which was published by Penguin since 2010-04-01 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781101197684 and ISBN 10 Code is 1101197684
Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is false
Book which have "720 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryPolitical Science
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true
Book Preview
Download Quicksand PDF Free
Download Quicksand Books Free
Download Quicksand Free
Download Quicksand PDF
Download Quicksand Books
No comments:
Post a Comment