LIBRARY NOTES
 
Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer
Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Temple Israel, 112 East 75th Street
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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. Some are famous (T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell), some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel's godfather), some controversial (the CIA's Miles Copeland and the Pentagon's Paul Wolfowitz). All helped enthrone rules in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. This character-driven narrative restores to life the colorful figures who, for good or ill, gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today.
Karl E. Meyer has written extensively on foreign affairs as a staff member of the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Shareen Blair Brysac, formerly a prizewinning documentary producer at CBS News, is the author of
Resisting Hitler.
The two previously co-authored Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia, on which they spoke in the 2000-2001 Author Series.
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