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

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, his ultimate goal is to persuade American readers that support for Israel should be a paramount ...

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