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 thrilli... SEE MORE