Ike's gamble
Subtitle: America's rise to dominance in the Middle East
By: Michael Doran
Edition: First Free Press hardcover edition.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781451697759
Subjects: Foreign relations; History
Description: This major retelling of the Suez Crisis of 1956--one of the most important events in the history of US policy in the Middle East--shows how President Eisenhower came to realize that Israel, not Egypt, is Americas strongest regional ally.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A new President; title: Collision; title: A patient sulky pig; title: Ike's first bet; title: Anatomy of a miscalculation; title: The alpha contradiction; title: Deception; title: K and big brother; title: Blowback; title: Three-dimensional chess; title: The end of empire; title: Ike's second bet; title: Regret.