Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East - Couverture rigide

Brysac, Shareen Blair; Meyer, Karl E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 039306199X ISBN 13 : 9780393061994

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2008

Synopsis

Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel's godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq); some controversial (the CIA's Miles Copeland and the Pentagon's Paul Wolfowitz). All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. As a bonus, we meet the British Empire's power couple, Lord and Lady Lugard (Flora Shaw): she named Nigeria, he ruled it; she used the power of the Times of London to attempt a regime change in the gold-rich Transvaal. The narrative is character-driven, and the aim is to restore to life the colorful figures who for good or ill gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today.

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À propos de l'auteur

Shareen Blair Brysac, formerly a prize-winning documentary producer at CBS News, is the author of Resisting Hitler and co-author of Tournament of Shadows and Kingmakers with Karl E. Meyer. The couple lives in New York and Weston, Connecticut.<br /><br />Karl E. Meyer has written extensively on foreign affairs as a staff member of the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 039306199X
• ISBN 13: 9780393061994
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible