Table of Contents

Preface
Note on the Text
List of Maps and Photographs
1. The Intellectual and Physical Setting
2. Competing Ideologies
3. The Convergence
4. The Palestine Mandate
5. Independence and al-Nakba
6. Cold Wars and the Middle East Matrix
7. The Earthquake
8. The Road to 1979
9. Mutual Fallouts: Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
10. A Decade of Hope
11. Breakdown ...
12. ... and Reconstruction?
Glossary
Chronology
For Further Reading
Index

About the Author

David W. Lesch is Professor of Middle East History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His books include The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment, Fourth Edition (2007); The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria (2005); the two-volume work History in Dispute: The Middle East Since World War II, Volumes 14 and 15 (2003); 1979: The Year That Shaped the
Modern Middle East (2001); Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East (1992); and The History of the United States in the Middle East (forthcoming).

Reviews

This book is very strong
*Dr Ronald R. Stockton, Middle East Journal*