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King's counsel : a memoir of war, espionage, and diplomacy in the Middle East / Jack O'Connell with Vernon Loeb.
LIBRA DS154.52.O26 A3 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Connell, Jack, 1921-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- O'Connell, Jack, 1921-2010.
- O'Connell, Jack.
- Hussein, King of Jordan, 1935-1999--Friends and associates.
- Hussein.
- Hussein, King of Jordan, 1935-1999.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Political consultants--Jordan--Biography.
- Political consultants.
- Political consultants--United States--Biography.
- International relations.
- Lawyers.
- Friends and associates.
- United States.
- Jordan.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Lawyers--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Officials and employees--Biography.
- Israel-Arab War, 1967.
- Jordan--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Jordan.
- Middle East--Politics and government--1945-.
- Middle East.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
- Contents:
- Summer in Amman, 1958
- A shotgun in the closet
- Calm before the storm
- The prelude to war
- The six day war
- Making things up as we went along
- "Can I trust this little king of yours?"
- Jousting with the Soviets, talking to the Israelis
- September 1970
- Back to Washington, back to war
- From Washington to Camp David
- Giving up the West Bank
- Saddam Hussein : friend or foe?
- A war that need not have been waged
- Cold peace
- Missed opportunities, miscalculations, and mistakes
- "A place beyond ourselves"
- Most of our enemies, we made
- Many drums to pound
- Irrepressible optimism.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393063349
- 0393063348
- OCLC:
- 668194846
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