Michael F. Cairo is associate professor of political science at Transylvania University, USA. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
"A significant contribution to scholarship. Cairo helps to put
America's wars in the Middle East in the context of the larger
American involvement in that region." -- Ryan Barilleaux, Miami
University
"I would certianly recommend Cairo's book for undergraduate and
graduate courses in history and political science and for those
seeking an introduction to either prsident's efforts in the Middle
East. Cairo's work also provides a thought-provoking analysis that
will be cited by many scholars seeking to advance the study of the
making of U.S. foreign policy." -- Trevor T. Thrall, H-Net
Review
"Others have ventured comparisons of the Bush presidencies, but
Cairo does so more methodically and systematically. His analysis is
well-documented, his interpretation cogent. His finding--that
personality factors such as belief and style, not simply
bureaucratic politics or international context, explain the marked
contrast in the effectiveness of two Bush policies toward Iraq and
the Mideast peace process--represents a significant corrective to
the literature on determinants of US foreign policy." -- Robert F.
Goeckel, SUNY Geneseo
"Political scientist Michael F. Cairo confronts questions of agency
and decision making in this outstanding study of the two Bush
presidencies, as they relate to two wars in the Gulf.[...] In the
end, this well-documented, elegantly written, forcefully argued
book is both important and groundbreaking. This book will be of
particularly high value to young scholars as a model of excellent
scholarship that they may wish to follow and from which much can be
learned." -- Presidential Studies Quarterly
"The major thesis of this highly readable and well-researched book
is that, more than anyhting else, the beliefs, values, and
ccharacters of Bush 41 and Bush 43 shaped the contours of US
foreign policy." -- Choice
"This book is a remarkable accomplishment. Cairo has produced what
students of the modern presidency have been waiting for -- a
thoughtful, critical, impeccably researched, and engagingly written
study of the foreign policy of the two Bushes. In the first joint
study of Bush 41 and Bush 43, Cairo deftly uses both a wide
selection of the available literature as well as newly opened
material from the Bush Papers to show how these two men defined the
policy of a generation." -- John Robert Greene, Cazenovia College
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