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Robert Cosgrove
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Michael Doran, Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East (see my Dec. 18 post about Blood and Sand, above). Another look at the Suez crisis. Thesis is that Nasser played the US against Great Britain, while making weapons deals with the USSR and destabilizing other Arab countries. "Eisenhower and Dulles fell into t[he] trap in 1955 when they subordinated their entire strategy to the fanciful goal of solving the Egyptian-Israeli conflict. While they were busy chasing a mirage, Nasser fleeced them." Eisenhower was later to describe his handling of the Suez crisis to Richard Nixon as "his major foreign policy mistake." Ironically, the history of the Suez crisis has largely been shaped by those who advocated accommodation of Nasser, notably Henry Byroade and Kermit Roosevelt. Interestingly, Doran comments that "before becoming secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel reportedly brought three dozen copies of a study lauding Eisenhower's management of the Suez Crisis and distributed them to, among others, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta."
Edited by Robert Cosgrove on 01 January 2017 at 10:14pm
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Allan Summerall
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"Odessa Sea" by Clive & Dirk Cussler. Love the Dirk Pitt series.
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Thom Price
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James Best
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Robert Shepherd
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I just bought The Great Book of Amber, which is a collection of 10 smaller novels by Roger Zelazny, The Chronicles of Amber.
The size of the book is right - nice and big to keep me busy for awhile. But the first thing that pops out is all 1258 pages are written in first person....oh no.
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James Best
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Thom Price
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THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA by Scott Lynch; part one of the GENTLEMAN BASTARD series.
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Francesco Consoli
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Just started -
A Longmire Mystery
by Craig Johnson
Hell is Empty
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Joseph Greathouse
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Rereading Flowers for Algernon for the first time in 20+ years.
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Don Zomberg
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Just finished REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard Yates, now starting SOUTHERN GODS by John Hornor Jacobs (thanks, Thom Price).
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James Best
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TO FETCH A THIEF by Spencer Quinn. Book 3 of the Chet & Bernie Mystery series.
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