The Long Road To Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East, From the Vietnam War to the Present

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A stunning new narrative of the road to America's Longest War in which the US's premier diplomatic historian excavates the roots of the American misadventure in Iraq. Here, Gardner illuminates a vital historical thread connecting Walt Whitman Rostow's defense of US intervention in Southeast Asia, Brzezinski's renewed attempts to protect American power into the arc of crisis' and the efforts of both Bush administrations to establish a 'landing zone' in the Iraq region.'

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Lloyd C. Gardner is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Long Road to Baghdad, Three Kings, The Road to Tahrir Square, and Killing Machine, and a co-editor, with Marilyn B. Young, of The New American Empire and Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, all published by The New Press. He lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania.