RESET; Iran, Turkey, and America's Future
Jason Joven (Maps) New York, N.Y. Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 274 pages. Illustrations. Bookplate inside front board. Inscribed on the title page by the author. Inscription reads, For Bruce--Best regards, Stephen Kinzer. Contains black and white map of Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia opposite the table of contents, and a map at page 20. Includes Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and Index. Chapters include Introduction, Part One: For the People, in Spite of the People; Part Two: Our Name Has Not Been An Honored One; Part Three: Very Far Away; and Part Four: The Door is so Wide Open. Stephen Kinzer (born August 4, 1951) is an American author, journalist and academic. He is a former New York Times correspondent. During the 1980s, Kinzer covered revolutions and social upheaval in Central America, and wrote his first book, Bitter Fruit, about military coups and destabilization in Guatemala during the 1950s. In 1990, The New York Times appointed Kinzer to head its Berlin bureau, from which he covered Eastern and Central Europe as they emerged from Soviet bloc. Kinzer was The New York Times chief in the newly established bureau in Istanbul from 1996 to 2000. Upon returning to the United States, Kinzer became the newspaper's culture correspondent, based in Chicago, as well as teaching at Northwestern University. Kinzer then moved to Boston and taught journalism and United States foreign policy at Boston University. He has written several non-fiction books about Turkey, Central America, Iran, and the US overthrow of foreign governments from the late 19th century to the present, as well as Rwanda's recovery from genocide. The author argues that contradictory U.S. policies in the Middle East are producing serial disasters. He recounts the verve the dramatic historical events and the vivid personalities that brought us to these straits and argues for a new realism about the rapid rise of Iran and Turkey as regional superpowers challenging the old, dysfunctional bargains struck in the twentieth century. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the future of the United States in the Middle East. The bestselling author of Overthrow offers a new and surprising vision for rebuilding America's strategic partnerships in the Middle East. What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Two countries in the region, he argues, are America's logical partners in the twenty-first century: Turkey and Iran. Besides proposing this new "power triangle," Kinzer also recommends that the United States reshape relations with its two traditional Middle East allies, Israel and Saudi Arabia. This book provides a penetrating, timely critique of America's approach to the world's most volatile region, and offers a startling alternative. Kinzer is a master storyteller with an eye for grand characters and illuminating historical detail. In this book he introduces us to larger-than-life figures, like a Nebraska schoolteacher who became a martyr to democracy in Iran, a Turkish radical who transformed his country and Islam forever, and a colorful parade of princes, politicians, women of the world, spies, oppressors, liberators, and dreamers.
Kinzer's provocative new view of the Middle East is the rare book that will richly entertain while moving a vital policy debate beyond the stale alternatives of the last fifty years. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Iran, Turkey, Ataturk, Democracy, Persia, Israel, Modernization, Ottoman Empire, Reza Pahlavi
ISBN: 9780805091274
[Book #81736]
Price: $75.00