[Download] The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
• Andrew Scott Cooper •
| #252423 in Books | Simon n Schuster | 2012-09-11 | 2012-09-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x1.70 x6.12l,1.27 | File Name: 1439155186 | 544 pages |
||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| A Nixon-Kissinger circular firing squad.|By Eric C. Petersen|First rate - Cooper has done a great job assembling this story (one most of the senior U.S. officials involved seem to have conveniently forgotten in their biographies) of how the United States gave the Shah carte blanch to buy any-and-all U.S. weapons (save nukes) to act as a U.S. surrogate in the Persian Gulf area:||“[A] compelling chronicle of America's involvement with Middle East petroleum states.” | —Michael Hiltzik, The Los Angeles Times | |About the Author|Andrew Scott Cooper holds advanced degre
“Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time when Cold War imperatives still applied,”* and tells why in the 1970s the U.S. switched its Middle East allegiance from the Shah of Iran to the Saudi royal family.
While America struggles with a recess ion, oil prices soar, revolution rocks the Mid...
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