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Furthermore, while the book's subtitle is "America in the Middle Ea...more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 5 1 false Thu Nov 15 19:16:19 -0800 2007 Mon Oct 22 20:15:12 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 20:16:30 -0700 2007 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 5 0 false Wed May 20 18:17:16 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 18:23:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 3 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 06 09:03:29 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 11:01:45 -0800 2009
1. I was appalled by the Armenian massacres. It was disturbing that the Turks were focused on genocide and their killing methods seemed to be a chilling precursor to the Jewish Holocaust. (such as ...more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 3 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 11:15:42 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 17:40:00 -0800 2009
This book really focuses on America's involvement in the Middle East (including North Africa), skipping over other events as much as possible and condensing the last 50 years into less than 100 pages (which ...more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 3 0 false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 11:29:08 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 11:45:29 -0700 2009
As a history book, the first 2/3 are good, if a bit dry and slow in places. The real highlight is the wealth of colorful American characters that our country has inf...more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 0 0 false Tue Feb 03 15:03:41 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 15:22:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 4 0 false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 01 21:28:54 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 22:13:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 792125 0393330303 9780393330304 19 7 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255793934m/792125.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/792125.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 4 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 07:09:08 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 13:19:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 3 0 false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 10:27:39 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 16:15:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 5 0 false Wed May 28 08:27:52 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 08:37:26 -0700 2008
I learned much history ...more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 4 0 false Thu May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 09:37:15 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 09:48:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 4 0 false Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 09:19:02 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 13:09:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 5 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 10:00:56 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 07 10:05:25 -0700 2007 Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present documents the involvement of the U.S.A. in the Middle East from the first battles with Barbary pirates through our current war in Iraq. As Oren examines each period (demarcated by our wars), he describes t...more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 5 0 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 30 08:24:35 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 08:24:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5587 0393058263 9780393058260 285 98 3.87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539543m/5587.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587.Power_Faith_and_Fantasy_America_in_the_Middle_East_1776_to_the_Present 4 0 false Tue Mar 13 17:10:57 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 13 17:17:02 -0700 2007
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