The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005GIH4UU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 486 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Nixon-Kissinger circular firing squad. First rate - Cooper has done a great job assembling this story (one most of the senior U.S. officials involved seem to have conveniently forgotten in their biographies) of how the United States gave the Shah carte blanch to buy any-and-all U.S. weapons (save nukes) to act as a U.S. surrogate in the Persian Gulf area: With things going rapidly down hill in Vietnam around 1970 and the Brits having announced they were pulling . "and its author Andrew Scott Cooper has done a great job in putting them all together in a fairly" according to mehdi. With over 100 pages of notes and bibliography this book is well sourced and its author Andrew Scott Cooper has done a great job in putting them all together in a fairly well written manner, that is mostly based on his factual findings and very little about his own views and biases. Which is in stark contrast with most of the books that have been written regarding this subject. Great book to read for anyone that still thinks. NeoFeudalSerf said Nixon, Kissinger, Ford, the Shah, and the Saudis. It was Kissinger in the Palace with the Oil Can. Author Andrew Scott Cooper's first book "Oil Kings" is surprising well written and entertaining. The book is primary about the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and his dealings with President Richard Nixon and the duplicitous Henry Kissinger. The book centers around a secret deal between the Shah, Nixon, and Kissinger which allowed Iran to purchase best of class U.S. weapons systems, advance jet fighters, smart bombs, e
Andrew Scott Cooper draws on newly declassified documents and interviews with some key figures of the time to show how Nixon, Ford, Kissinger, the CIA, and the State and Treasury departments - as well as the Shah and the Saudi royal family maneuvered to control events in the Middle East. The Oil Kings provides solid evidence that U.S. It discloses that U.S. The price of oil skyrocketed, causing serious inflation. Struggling with a recession European nations at risk of defaulting on their loans A possible global financial crisis. He details the secret U.S.-Saudi plan to circumvent OPEC that destabilized th