Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue
1: Oil, God, and Real Estate
2: Dropping Anchors in the Middle East
3: An Islamic Pope
4: Shifting Sands
5: Double, Double, Oil and Trouble
6: "A New and Glorious Chapter"
7: Mobilizing Religion
8: Begin or Reagan
9: "We Support Some, They Support Some"
10: The Cold War Ends with a Bang
11: Parting Ways
12: September 11 and Beyond
13: Reconfiguring the U.S.-Saudi Strategic Partnership
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Rachel Bronson is Vice President of Programs and Studies at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Her writings have appeared in publications such as Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Chicago Tribune. She has commented widely on foreign affairs in outlets such as NPR, CNN, The Lehrer News Hour, The Charlie Rose Show, and The Daily Show with Jon
Stewart.

Reviews

"Rachel Bronson's Thicker than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia takes on an important subject matter, the history of the U.S.--Daudi relationship, and makes an important contribution to the literature. Bronson's book is thoroughly researched, with extensive citations to diplomatic accounts, autobiographies, government documents, and intersting interviews woven into a storyboard text that is lieable and enjoyable to read."--Amy Myers
Jaffe, International Journal of Middle East Studies

"Rachel Bronson's Thicker than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia takes on an important subject matter, the history of the U.S.--Daudi relationship, and makes an important contribution to the literature. Bronson's book is thoroughly researched, with extensive citations to diplomatic accounts, autobiographies, government documents, and intersting interviews woven into a storyboard text that is lieable and enjoyable to read."--Amy Myers Jaffe, International Journal of Middle East Studies