The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Here is the untold story of an inbred, gifted, and powerful elite of families and friends who dominated America’s relations with the Middle East for over a century. Known to Foreign Service colleagues as “the Arabists,” these were the men and women who had spent much of their lives, usually with their families, living in the Arab world as diplomats, military attaches, inte….Read More
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