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Originally Posted by ilduclo
looks interesting, but a lot of current Middle Eastern history seems to stem from times way before that. If he doesn't go back at least to 1920, I think it's missing a lot
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It’s really more of a first-person account of his time there, and his observations about how one thing led to another. It’s not really a history text. He was the NYY bureau chief in Beirut for several years, and this is the book he wrote about what he experienced, with some history for context.
Really more of a non-fiction, journalism piece than a historical text... at least that’s what his talk was like and that’s what I’m getting from the book thus far.