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Author |
: Wilbur Crane Eveland |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 545 |
Release |
: 2018-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781504050050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1504050053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ropes of Sand by : Wilbur Crane Eveland
A “stinging indictment” of US foreign policy and covert operations in the Middle East from a former military attaché and CIA operative (The Christian Science Monitor). After the close of World War II, former army intelligence agent Wilbur Crane Eveland trained as a military attaché, specializing in the new focal point of global concern: the Middle East. In the decades that followed, he personally witnessed the evolution and many blunders of American Middle East policy from embassies of Arab states, inside the Pentagon and the White House, and as a principal CIA representative in the region. Finally, as a petroleum-engineering consultant, he lived with the results of America’s errors. In Ropes of Sand, Eveland delivers a richly detailed assessment of the mistakes, miscalculations, and outright failures he observed. The governments the United States armed to defend the Middle East against Russia ended in collapse. American support of the Shah of Iran led to disastrous results. Many of the major crises the US faced, from the energy shortage to the border issues of Israel, had been forecast decades earlier. Eveland explains the country’s failure to understand these problems and shows why every proposed solution, from the United Nations Partition Resolution for Palestine to the Camp David Accords, only added fuel to the fire. His insider critique is essential for understanding the Arab Spring, the threat of ISIS, and the ongoing conflicts we face in the region today. First released in 1980, this memoir was initially blocked from publication by the CIA for its revealing and critical discussion of numerous covert operations, some of which Eveland engaged in himself.
Author |
: Bartlett Jere Whiting |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 626 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674219813 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674219816 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases by : Bartlett Jere Whiting
p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."
Author |
: Wilbur Crane Eveland |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 150405007X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781504050074 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis Ropes of Sand by : Wilbur Crane Eveland
A "stinging indictment" of US foreign policy and covert operations in the Middle East from a former military attach and CIA operative (The Christian Science Monitor). After the close of World War II, former army intelligence agent Wilbur Crane Eveland trained as a military attach , specializing in the new focal point of global concern: the Middle East. In the decades that followed, he personally witnessed the evolution and many blunders of American Middle East policy from embassies of Arab states, inside the Pentagon and the White House, and as a principal CIA representative in the region. Finally, as a petroleum-engineering consultant, he lived with the results of America's errors. In Ropes of Sand, Eveland delivers a richly detailed assessment of the mistakes, miscalculations, and outright failures he observed. The governments the United States armed to defend the Middle East against Russia ended in collapse. American support of the Shah of Iran led to disastrous results. Many of the major crises the US faced, from the energy shortage to the border issues of Israel, had been forecast decades earlier. Eveland explains the country's failure to understand these problems and shows why every proposed solution, from the United Nations Partition Resolution for Palestine to the Camp David Accords, only added fuel to the fire. His insider critique is essential for understanding the Arab Spring, the threat of ISIS, and the ongoing conflicts we face in the region today. First released in 1980, this memoir was initially blocked from publication by the CIA for its revealing and critical discussion of numerous covert operations, some of which Eveland engaged in himself.
Author |
: Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:278287745 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ropes of Sand by : Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo
Author |
: Joseph Jenkins Lee |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 21 |
Release |
: 1903 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:18563903 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis "Ropes of Sand." by : Joseph Jenkins Lee
Author |
: Lura Kelsey Clendening |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 1907 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HX5PMF |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (MF Downloads) |
Synopsis Ropes of Sand by : Lura Kelsey Clendening
Author |
: Robert Edward Francillon |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 2 |
Release |
: 1884 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:79429263 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ropes of Sand by : Robert Edward Francillon
Author |
: Jorge Luis Borges |
Publisher |
: Dutton Books |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015035341034 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book of Sand by : Jorge Luis Borges
Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.
Author |
: Mary Patricia Willcocks |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1926 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:504393964 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ropes of Sand by : Mary Patricia Willcocks
Author |
: Julia MOWBRAY |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 1940 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:562692494 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ropes of Sand by : Julia MOWBRAY