Power, Faith, and Fantasy
America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
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Michael B. Oren traces more than two centuries of American engagement with the Middle East through diplomacy, commerce, missionary activity, cultural exchange, and war.
The book opens the regional path with a long historical view of how American power and ideas interacted with competing political and religious orders.
Why I include it
This is the chronological anchor for the Middle East path. Read it alongside Black Wave and the firsthand and fictional accounts that follow to compare state power with lived experience.
