Power, Faith and Fantasy:
America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present

Oren, recently visiting professor at Harvard and Yale and author of the best-selling Six Days of War – covers 230 years of America’s political, military, and intellectual involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush.

Image: Lieutenant Stephen Decatur boarding a Tripolitan Gunboat during the bombardment of Tripoli in 1804 by Dennis Malone Carter, 1878 (Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington Navy Yard)