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“Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”―Christopher Dickey, Newsweek

Power, Faith, and Fantasytells the remarkable story of America's 230-year relationship with the Middle East. Drawing on a vast range of government documents, personal correspondence, and the memoirs of merchants, missionaries, and travelers, Michael B. Oren narrates the unknown story of how the United States has interacted with this vibrant and turbulent region. 68 black-and-white photographs, 4 maps
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Customers find the book informative and well-researched. They appreciate the thorough treatment of the relationship and its history. The writing style is praised as readable and eloquent. Many readers find the book entertaining at times. Overall, customers find the book non-judgmental and without editorializing or political bias.

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Customers find the book informative and thorough. It explains the complicated history in an objective and comprehensive manner. The author presents his findings in an unbiased way.

"...The detail is illuminating, the dispassionate scholarly approach is welcome, (there appears no political bias)...." Read more

"...very interesting read - I found this book to be a page-turner and very informative at the same time...." Read more

"...tome it is based on a three prong theme dominated by the most noble cause of faith while also supported by fantasy and established by power...." Read more

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Customers find the book well-written and easy to read. They appreciate the detailed explanation of events and the smooth flow of sentences. The writing style is eloquent, fast, and fluid, with balanced content.

"...USA in 1776 and the Ottoman Empire to today's Middle East, Oren writes clearly and compellingly about the USA and that area of the world...." Read more

"...His writing style is fast and fluid, and while the middle half of the book gets bogged down a good deal, it is truly useful reading for anyone..." Read more

"...You come away with a great overview of our involvement in the Middle East both politically and militarily and gives a great perspective on the role..." Read more

"...All in all, it's an easy reading for people interested in understanding a region that like it or not, in our time has become our virtual neighbor." Read more

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Customers find the book provides an excellent history of the period. They appreciate the author's ability to put historical facts on a timeline that tells the story in a way that is engaging and informative. The book is described as a must-read for anyone interested in American history, and it's recommended for high school history classes. Readers also mention that the book has proper historical citations kept in endnotes.

"Power, Faith and Fantasy is an excellent history of the interaction between the US and the Middle East since our nation's founding, resting on those..." Read more

"Michael Oren does a good job in two fronts: 1. Fills a vacuum in history for most Americans and for that matter, and particularly, for most..." Read more

"...Oren does an excellent job going over the history and bringing events together in a natural way, but Oren really centers his efforts on the founding..." Read more

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  • Gary Mullennix
    5.0 out of 5 stars Learned piece of historical writing
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2008
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    From the founding of the USA in 1776 and the Ottoman Empire to today's Middle East, Oren writes clearly and compellingly about the USA and that area of the world. The detail is illuminating, the dispassionate scholarly approach is welcome, (there appears no political bias). It would be hard to imagine a better written or more complete history of the US and its continued involvement in the region. From the Ottoman Empire to its collapse in WWI, the ensuing colonial establishment by Europe and Russia, the massive need of the world for the oil of the region, the fated rise of Zionism, the battle waged to keep Russia from gaining control, the fall of secular control and the rise of fundamental Islam in many states, the continued failure despite so many efforts to bring peace to the area, the upsurge in militant Islam and the attacks on the USA and Europe, are all written about with enough detail to give the reader a clear sense of the continuing themes which reveal themselves and the very difficult challenges all American presidents since Wilson have had there.

    From WWII's end to today, all the names and events are woven into a very readable narrative. Any reader will be far better informed as a reward for 604 pages of text and the 128 pages of reference material to support the work.

    As at the ball park, you can't know the game without the program. This is a big help.
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  • Dianne Roberts
    5.0 out of 5 stars A stunning history of the US and the Middle East
    Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2007
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    Power, Faith and Fantasy is an excellent history of the interaction between the US and the Middle East since our nation's founding, resting on those three themes as the appropriate paradigms through which to interpret that interaction.

    The history can be roughly broken up into three phases. The first is the Barbary Wars where out Nation found it's strength (as well as it's Navy) and much of it's character in a drawn out, and often meandering, struggle against Muslim pirates. The second is a long period from the end of the Barbary Wars to World War I, which is characterized almost exclusively by the efforts of private missionaries travelling far and wide across the Middle East to bring the word of Christ, as well as more pedestrian tourism. The missionaries efforts at proselytizing were almost universally a failure, but they did leave behind a large number of relatively sophisticated schools and universities which were unknown in the Middle East at the time and later became the fountains of power for the Arab Nationalism movement. Both the missionaries and the tourists however generally returned home disappointed by the whole experience. The Middle East remained a place that promised so much but delivered so litte. The last, "modern," phase of the history stretches essentially from World War I to now. The watershed event of this period was the collapse of the Ottoman Empire which eliminated any sizable, coherent Muslim power in the world, a first since the Caliphate was founded over a thousand years ago.

    For me this period was the most relevant, although the previous two were certainly very interesting. At the end of World War I the victors proceeded to thoroughly "lose the peace" in the middle east, promising freedom -which so many there thirsted for after living under the generally unwanted yoke of the Turkish Ottomans- but delivering colonialism instead. This poured anti-western fuel onto the fires of both the reactionary / fundamentalist Islam being espoused by Wahabbi mosques and others, and the countervailing, secular nationalist movements at home in the schools founded by the American missionaries. Through a long series of events, -the introduction of Israel and muslim intolerance of it, continued western meddling such as the Anglo-French-Israeli Suez Crisis, the failure of Middle Eastern governments to adapt to the modern world, and the collapse of Arab nationalism which adopted the unworkable theory of socialism as their mantra- the Middle East never achieved any of the dreams that its various inhabitants saw as eerily within grasp following the end of WWI, be it freedom, Arab unity, or the re-emergence of an Islamic power reformed from the corrupt and backward Ottoman Empire. This has led to an inexorable slide into the Middle East we find today, a corrupt thugocracy whose people are unfortunately turning increasingly towards radical islam as their savoir and the outlet of their anger now that the alternate (and false) hope of Nationalist inspired Socialism evaporated into failure, and post colonial freedom has proven to be a chimerical mirage.

    While much of the Middle East's problems have been intensified by outside interference, more of them have been home grown. It is a place that for both internal and external reasons has never experienced real freedom. We now stand at an extremely pivotal moment in the history of not only the region and our nation but the world. After a long a bewildering history of interaction between America and the Middle East our relations have reached their zenith, with an American led liberation of Iraq that has brought the first chance of real freedom to the Middle East while at the same time teetering on the brink of occupation through mistakes and incompetence. The Middle East is now walking a deadly tightrope between radical Islam on the one side and American inspired freedom on the other. America walks a similar tightrope, between facing the bloody and expensive proposition of spreading of our ideals into the region -with the sobering realization that this won't necessarily bring peace or friendship towards us-, or falling back to a diplomatic preference for a farcical and self serving "stability" in the region which has marked our relations with the region from 1945 to 2003 -hopefully with the equally sobering realization that this has contributed immensely to the current woes of the region that spilled over onto our shores on 9/11.

    Michael B. Oren's book is an amazing and extensive tour of the history of the Middle East, how America has interacted with it, and how we have gotten to the situation outlined above. His writing style is fast and fluid, and while the middle half of the book gets bogged down a good deal, it is truly useful reading for anyone trying to understand what is going on in the Middle East today and trying to figure out what we should be doing in kind.

    Highly recommended.
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  • Joseph F. Birchmeier
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and Informative
    Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2007
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    For anyone interested in an overview of U.S. involvement in the Middle East that incorporates a great deal of insight into the personalities of those involved - this is your book. I personally enjoyed all of the details provided on the leaders and significant personalities throughout the Middle East - this gave me insight into the type of people and perspectives that U.S. leaders have had to deal with as they navigated the complex range of Middle East issues. A very interesting read - I found this book to be a page-turner and very informative at the same time. You come away with a great overview of our involvement in the Middle East both politically and militarily and gives a great perspective on the role that missionaries have played in our involvement in the Middle East. I came away with several areas that I now want to explore in greater detail that I probably would not have thought about without reading this book.
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  • Cliff Pinto
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended and comprehensive read by an ace historian.
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  • DMJ MIAH
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2010
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    For a long time I have wondered about the link between Middle East and America, surely it can not be all hatred?
    This is an amazing book which is well thoroughly researched. The contribution of Islam goes to the core of the American constitution "all men are equal" a passage from the Quran.
    If the Muslim could receive America with an open arm after its independence from the British rule, the geopolitics of the world would have been shaped differently. Instead of promoting north African pirates if the Ottoman had a professional navel the Mediterranean would have had a different story to tell.
    The Arabs blame America as bias towards Israel, it was the ability of the American Jews to broker deals between USA and Middle East that handed the Jews with a powerful influence in American foreign policies. If anything Ottoman arrogance is to blame for much of the double standards that is often the accusation made towards the west. What this book does is explains brilliantly fact that are not known and only now is being revealed to the world
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  • Mosheh Vineberg
    5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal work! Captivating account of the East vs West clash of cultures
    Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2013
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    Michael Oren does a phenomenal job of researching and describing in vivid detail the historical events during the Ottoman Empire, in showing the roots of Muslim intolerance toward the West, and the early roots of terrorism, and the East's rejection of the West. In line with other great Historians on the clash of Muslim Countries with Judeo-Christian based ones, like Bernard Lewis' work.
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  • Isaac Markman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Michael Oren is very good. he make you feel like in the place
    Reviewed in Canada on July 1, 2016
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    Michael Oren is very good. he make you feel like in the place. He gives you all information regarding the issue. when he writes make you have a sensation that you are in the story.
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