Arabists: The Romance of an American EliteSimon and Schuster, 1995 M07 1 - 368 pages A tight-knit group closely linked by intermarriage as well as class and old school ties, the “Arabists” were men and women who spent much of their lives living and working in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, intelligence agents, scholar-adventurers, and teachers. As such, the Arabists exerted considerable influence both as career diplomats and as bureaucrats within the State Department from the early nineteenth century to the present. But over time, as this work shows, the group increasingly lost touch with a rapidly changing American society, growing both more insular and headstrong and showing a marked tendency to assert the Arab point of view. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and other official and private sources, Kaplan reconstructs the 100-year history of the Arabist elite, demonstrating their profound influence on American attitudes toward the Middle East, and tracing their decline as an influx of ethnic and regional specialists has transformed the State Department and challenged the power of the old elite. |
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... David H. Finnie's Pioneers East: The Early American Experience in the Middle East is the finest general study available about American missionaries in the Levant. Leo J. Bocage's The Public Career of Charles R. Crane goes into detail ...
... David H. Finnie's Pioneers East: The Early American Experience in the Middle East is the finest general study available about American missionaries in the Levant. Leo J. Bocage's The Public Career of Charles R. Crane goes into detail ...
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... David Stuart Dodge, remembers the hiking and skiing on Cedar Mountain, where the same cedar trees had stood since antiquity. In the summers Grace and David pitched tents with their family in a cedar grove protected by the Maronite ...
... David Stuart Dodge, remembers the hiking and skiing on Cedar Mountain, where the same cedar trees had stood since antiquity. In the summers Grace and David pitched tents with their family in a cedar grove protected by the Maronite ...
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... David Dodge, Talcott Seelye, Bill Stoltzfus, David Zimmerman, Arthur and Ray Close, and their friends. Physically, there are few places on earth as lovely as Lebanon: it's one of those sacred spots in which winter and summer, sea and ...
... David Dodge, Talcott Seelye, Bill Stoltzfus, David Zimmerman, Arthur and Ray Close, and their friends. Physically, there are few places on earth as lovely as Lebanon: it's one of those sacred spots in which winter and summer, sea and ...
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... David Finnie, “of Protestant vigor” such as the world had never known, all borne within a framework of extraordinary pioneer optimism. Protestant evangelicals of every stripe, each of whom thought he had the true revelation, were ...
... David Finnie, “of Protestant vigor” such as the world had never known, all borne within a framework of extraordinary pioneer optimism. Protestant evangelicals of every stripe, each of whom thought he had the true revelation, were ...
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... David Stuart Dodge, became the president of its board of trustees (which included Reverend Dodge's brother, William Earl Dodge). The American community in Beirut was now no longer centered around a diverse group of missionaries but ...
... David Stuart Dodge, became the president of its board of trustees (which included Reverend Dodge's brother, William Earl Dodge). The American community in Beirut was now no longer centered around a diverse group of missionaries but ...
Contents
Aggrieved Area Experts | |
Mugged by Reality | |
Horan of Arabia | |
Indiana Jones | |
Debacle | |
The Icy Eyes That Had Contemplated Nineveh | |
Cowering in a Dark Alley | |
Hostages to Idealism | |
Reality | |
Mr Foreign Service | |
Old Hands | |
Never a Dull Moment | |
Redemption | |
A New Species? | |
Bibliography | |
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