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ARABS OIL & HISTORY
SIGNED BY KERMIT ROOSEVELT
a unique perspective on the relationship between Arabs, oil, and the shaping of history
Please note, I am not for sure of the value of this RARE Scarce Book. I could not locate another copy that had the Dust Jacket and that was Signed. Please feel free to send Best Offer as they all will be considered. Thank You!
Author: Kermit Roosevelt
Illustrations: na
Publisher: Victor Gollancz LTD
London
Copyright Date: 1949
Assuming to be a First Edition
Content
- About the Book
Classic Americana Historical Vintage
Book -
.... is a fascinating account of these people and their way of life. It is anecdotal and easy to read, but at the same time packed with solid information and hard thinking. It is divided into three parts, Part I has chapters on the basic issues, land and the need for water; oil the vastness of the reserves and the complicated pattern of concessions and pipelines; nationalism and the growth of Arab nationalism in reaction to Zionism; the state of women..... Part 2 covers successively each Middle Eastern Country, Egypt, Transjordan Iraq Syria Lebanon, Iran, Turkey and Afghanistan.... Palestine and discusses the Arab versus the Jewish ... Part III deals with issued of British, American and Soviet Policy towards the middle east
.. Part One. LAND AND PEOPLE
I. Traffic at the Crossroads
II. What Makes the Middle East?
III. The Desert
IV. Buried Treasure
V. Germs, Arabs and Etiquette
VI. Nationalists — and Nomads
Vll 'There is One God"
VIII. The Past teas Promising
IX. The Case of the Vanishing Veil
X. "Waiting is an Occupation"
Part Two, THE COUNTRIES
XI. Egypt; Cakes for the Pat, an Onion for the Thin
XII. Iraq: Russia Loves a Vacuum
XIII. Transjordan: A Legion, a King and a joke
XIV. Lebanon: Switzerland of the Middle East
XV. Syria; Troubles for the Young Effendi
XVI. Saudi Arabia: Revolution American Style
XVII. Palestine; House of Strife
XVIII. Iran; Tribesmen, Soldiers and Intrigue
XIX. Turkey and Afghanistan: Gray Wolf, Black Lamb
Part Three, THE BIG POWERS
XX. Bit Players and Stars
. Soviet Union; How to Move One Way in Opposite
Directions
XXII. Britain and the United States: The Push-me-Pull-you Team
XXIII. A Footnote for Americans
Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt Jr. (February 16, 1916 – June 8, 2000) was an American intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services during and following World War II.
A grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Roosevelt went on to establish American Friends of the Middle East and then played a lead role in the CIA's efforts to overthrow Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected Majlis-appointed prime minister of Iran, in August 1953.
Roosevelt went on to serve on the advisory board of a largely-Arab organization, the Institute of Arab American Affairs, a New York City-based organization, and Roosevelt wrote an essay in 1948 about his views on American Zionism and the partition of Palestine. In February 1948 Roosevelt joined more than 100 like-minded individuals to form a "Christian group" to aid the fight of the largely rabbinical American Council for Judaism to reverse the ongoing partition of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. The Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land (CJP) was founded on March 2, 1948, with Dean emeritus Gildersleeve serving as CJP chair, former Union Theological Seminary president Henry Sloane Coffin as vice-chair, and Roosevelt as executive director.
In 1951, Roosevelt, Virginia Gildersleeve; Dorothy Thompson; and a further group of 24 American educators, theologians, and writers (including Harry Emerson Fosdick) founded the American Friends of the Middle East (AFME), a pro-Arab organization often critical of US support for Israel. The CJP, which Roosevelt had helped form in 1948, was subsumed into the AFME in 1951, and Roosevelt served for a time as the AFME executive secretary for the group of intellectuals and spokespersons. The historians Robert Moats Miller, Hugh Wilford, and others have stated that from its early years, AFME was a part of an Arabist propaganda effort within the US that was "secretly funded and to some extent managed" by the CIA, with further funding from the oil consortium ARAMCO.
[Roosevelt Jr.] had this notion of America forming an alliance with the Arab countries as they emerged from under the sway of Britain and France. He was very concerned with backing Arab nationalists in the region. He saw that as the best way of keeping it within the American orbit, as the Cold War was gathering momentum....
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271 Pages
Book Condition
Color Boards: Good overall condition with Dust Jacket, which was folded and placed inside the book; so there is a crease marking down the front, slight edge wear and slight chipping, still good overall condition due to rarity of the Jacket, and SIGNED Book
Clean except for the Inscription -
"For the Goshorns with memories of a happy visit! Affectionally Kermit Roosevelt
Also laid inside the book sis the 39th A?nnual Journalism Week Banquet Notes & Quotes, which has handwritten notes from the seminar, see photos.
Corners / Outer Boards: Slight bumped corners, slight scuffing and rubbing,
overall nice condition for the age of the book, see photos
Binding: Overall tight
binding for the age
Pages: Overall appears to be
clean good "collectible" condition.
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