Prologue: The Ever-Growing Egg -- 1. The Proconsul: Lord Cromer -- 2. The Empire's Power Couple: Dame Flora Shaw and Lord Frederick Lugard -- 3. "Dr. Weizmann, It's a Boy!": Sir Mark Sykes -- 4. The Acolyte: A. T. Wilson -- 5. "Dreadfully Occupied in Making Kings and Governments": Gertrude Bell -- 6. The Frenzy of Renown: T. E. Lawrence -- 7. The Apostate: H. S. J. B. Philby -- 8. ''A Splendid Little Army": Glubb Pasha -- 9. A Very British Coup: General Ironside and the Three Percys (Sirs Cox, Sykes, and Loraine) -- 10. The Quiet American: Kermit Roosevelt -- 11. The Apprentice Sorcerer: Miles Copeland -- 12. The Man Who Knew Too Much: Paul Wolfowitz -- Epilogue: Echoes in a Long Corridor
Summary
"Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. The narrative is character-driven, and the aim is to restore to life the colorful figures who for good or ill gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today."--BOOK JACKET
Notes
Formerly CIP. Uk
Originally published: 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-483) and index
