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Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East

by Michael Doran

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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 America's strongest regional ally.

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Published: 2016
Genres: History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 327.7305609
LCC: E836 .D67

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