Patrick Tyler A WORLD OF TROUBLE First Edition
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Patrick Tyler A WORLD OF TROUBLE First Edition
First USA edition, first print hardback of A WORLD OF TROUBLE The White House and the Middle East from the Cold War to the War on Terror, by Patrick Tyler and published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, in 2009. Stated 'First Edition, 2009' with full numberline 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the copyright page.The book is in very good condition (Clean quarter bound black boards with white lettering on spine which has minor creasing to the spine edges) with only minor shelf wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Patrick Tyler has spent 30 years as a journalist, dividing his time between Washington, and tours in the Middle East, China, Russia and Europe. He worked for the Washington Post for 12 years, then for the New York Times for 14 years, leaving it in 2005 to write books full-time. He was successively Moscow Bureau Chief, Beijing Bureau Chief and London Bureau Chief. As chief correspondent for the New York Times he reported from Baghdad in the lead up to the first Gulf War and covered the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 2003. His book A Great Wall, Six Presidents and China won the 1999 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on international relations and the Helen Bernstein Prize awarded by the New York Public Library.
"The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war. But it was not always soand as Patrick Tyler shows in this thrilling chronicle of American misadventures in the region, the story of American presidents dealings there is one of mixed motives, skulduggery, deceit, and outright foolishness, as well as of policy making and diplomacy.
Tyler draws on newly opened presidential archives to dramatize the approach to the Middle East across U.S. presidencies from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. He takes us into the Oval Office and shows how our leaders made momentous decisions; at the same time, the sweep of this narrativefrom the Suez crisis to the Iran hostage crisis to George W. Bushs catastrophe in Iraqlets us see the big picture as never before. Tyler tells a story of presidents being drawn into the affairs of the region against their will, being kept in the dark by local potentates, being led astray by grasping subordinates, and making decisions about the internal affairs of countries they hardly understand. Above all, he shows how each president has managed to undo the policies of his predecessor, often fomenting both anger against America on the streets of the region and confusion at home.
A World of Trouble is the Middle East book we need now: compulsively readable, free of cant and ideology, and rich in insight about the very human challenges a new president will face as he or she tries to restore Americas standing in the region."
'An authoritative, richly detailed account of American policy in the Middle East . . . [Tyler] writes vividly, allowing the reader access to White House meetings, huddles in the corridors of power, seats at international summits.' Adam LeBor, The New York Times
'Patrick Tyler . . . has written an engaging but idiosyncratic account of U.S. interactions with the Middle East from 1956 onward.' Steven Simon, The Washington Post
628 pages. Illustrated with monochrome photographs within the text.
ISBN: 0 374 29289 2
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