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1) The oil kings: how the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia changed the balance of power in the Middle East
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
530 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
This is an account of an era we thought we knew: how the US decision in the mid-1970s to choose Saudi Arabia as the dominant oil power in the Mideast ultimately led to the Islamic revolution in Iran, and how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and international affairs. The author draws on newly declassified documents and interviews with some key figures of the time to show how Nixon, Ford, Kissinger, the CIA, and the State and Treasury departments,...
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