A brilliant narrative history tracing today"s troubles back to grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-483) and index
Map of the Middle East -- Prologue: The Ever-Growing Egg -- The Proconsul / Lord Cromer -- The Empire"s Power Couple / Dame Flora Shaw, Lord Frederick Lugard -- "Dr. Weizmann, It"s a Boy!" / Sir Mark Sykes -- The Acolyte / A.T. Wilson -- "Dreadfully Occupied in Making Kings and Governments" / Gertrude Bell -- The Frenzy of Renown / T.E. Lawrence -- The Apostate / H.S.J.B. Philby -- "A Splendid Little Army" / Glubb Pasha -- A Very British Coup: General Ironside and the Three Percys (Sirs Cox, Sykes, and Loraine) -- The Quiet American / Kermit Roosevelt -- The Apprentice Sorcerer / Miles Copeland -- The Man Who Knew Too Much / Paul Wolfowitz -- Epilogue: Echoes in a Long Corridor