Hating America - A History    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 104030 words. Language: English. Published on February 17, 2013. Essay » Political.
When writing a book, an author often has the sensation of being surrounded by that topic. In the case of anti-Americanism that experience was particularly strong. As the 21st century began it seemed as if the amount of criticism the United States was receiving around the world was matched only by the quantity of passionate debate about why this was happening.

Children of Dolhinov    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 146450 words. Language: English. Published on February 15, 2013. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » World politics.
It is a titanic story though one rather slow-moving by contemporary standards.

The Truth about Syria    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 126090 words. Language: English. Published on February 15, 2013. Essay » Political.
A stock figure of modern political literature is the Latin American dictator, a beribboned generalissimo, overweight, corrupt, propping up rich landlords who live in luxury on the back of impoverished peasants, using the language of anti-Communism to justify crushing any possibility of reform. Clearly, such people were seen as villains.

Istanbul Intrigues    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 106090 words. Language: English. Published on February 14, 2013. Essay » Political.
This is the story of Istanbul--but also of Turkey, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean--during World War II, based on extensive interviews and the use of archives, especially those of the OSS, which I was the first to see for this region. The book is written as a cross between a scholarly work and a real-life thriller.

Assimilation and its Discontents    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 120470 words. Language: English. Published on February 13, 2013. Essay » Political.
When I realized that nobody had written a comprehensive history of Jewish assimilation, I knew that I had to try doing it myself. It was a remarkable learning experience as I researched a wide range of cultural and historical issues and discovered lots of people and events of which I’d previously known nothing.

The Tragedy of the Middle East    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 111440 words. Language: English. Published on February 13, 2013. Essay » Political.
The title was chosen in great sincerity because the theme here is to explain how the region’s modern history really is a tragedy.’ Terrible mistakes were made; the wrong roads were chosen. Bloodthirsty ideology took hold; pragmatism was thrown out the window. And yet alongside all of these disasters was a certainty of correctness and a violent rejection of even considering what had gone wrong.

Modern Dictators - Third World Coup Makers, Strongmen, and Populist Tyrants    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 122700 words. Language: English. Published on February 11, 2013. Essay » Political.
The world suddenly became a lot more difficult for Americans to understand in the 1970s and 1980s. Dozens of Third World countries underwent a seemingly endless series of coups and revolutions.

Secrets of State    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 138040 words. Language: English. Published on February 7, 2013. Essay » Political.
This book is a history of the State Department but, more broadly, of the American foreign policymaking process. It narrates the development of both the decision-making institutions and the content of policy from the founding of the republic through the administration of President Ronald Reagan.

Paved with Good Intentions    by Barry Rubin
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Watching the Iranian revolution in 1978, it seemed to me vital to explain the history of U.S.-Iran relations and how things had become so much in conflict. This book traces that relationship down through the hostage crisis. Many have recognized it as the critical account on this issue.

The Arab States and the Palestine Conflict    by Barry Rubin
Price: Free! 121780 words. Language: English. Published on February 7, 2013. Essay » Political.
Hundreds of books and thousands of articles have been devoted to the history and contemporary course of the Arab-Israeli conflict.