Reset Middle East

Stephen Kinzer is the bestselling author of 'Overthrow', 'All the Shah's Men', 'Crescent and Star', among others. An award-winning foreign correspondent, he served as The New York Times bureau chief in Turkey. He teaches international relations at Boston University, contributes to The New York Review of Books and writes a world affairs column for The Guardian.

'At once a stern critique of American foreign policy and a concise, colorful, and compelling modern history of Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. A former journalist for The New York Times and The Boston Globe, Kinzer is a masterful storyteller. His cast of characters leaps off the page... Kinzer makes a compelling case... that the road to peace in the Middle East runs through Ankara and Tehran, not Jerusalem.' - NPR.org; 'Kinzer re-imagines the world and America's role in it.' - Robert Lacey, author of Inside the Kingdom; 'Stephen Kinzer is a journalist of a certain cheeky fearlessness and exquisite timing. In his new book he's ahead of the game again. ... This book is a bold exercise in reimagining the United States' big links in the Middle East.' -The Huffington Post; 'Fresh and well-informed... Kinzer argues persuasively that despite their very different governments - one friendly and free, the other hostile and theocratic - both Turkey and Iran are host to vibrant democratic traditions that make them natural long-term partners of the United States... [A] lively, character-driven approach to history.' - The Washington Post

• IntroductionPart One: For the People in Spite of the People1. The Real Life and Soul of the Show2. Away with Dreams and Shadows!3. We Have No Choice But to Catch UpPart Two: Our Name Has Not Been an Honoured One4. This Dizzy Old Wizard5. Sowers of Corruption on EarthPart Three: Very Far Away6. You Win, You Bald Headed Son of A Bitch7. So Deeply EntwinedPart Four: The Door is So Wide Open8. Where They Come TogetherNotesBibliographyAcknowledgementsIndex