Patrick Tyler is chief correspondent for the New York Times and the author of A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China, which won the Lionel Gelber Prize.
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The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war. But it was not always so-and as Patrick Tyler shows in this thrilling chr... SEE MORE