A01=Karl E. Meyer
A01=Shareen Blair Brysac
Author_Karl E. Meyer
Author_Shareen Blair Brysac
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393337709
- Weight: 770g
- Dimensions: 157 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2009
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel’s godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq). All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. The aim of this engrossing character-driven narrative is to restore to life the colorful figures who gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today.
Shareen Blair Brysac, formerly a prize-winning documentary producer at CBS News, is the author of Resisting Hitler and co-author of Tournament of Shadows and Kingmakers with Karl E. Meyer. The couple lives in New York and Weston, Connecticut. Karl E. Meyer has written extensively on foreign affairs as a staff member of the New York Times and the Washington Post.
