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This often surprising book shares firsthand accounts and frank discussions from a meeting held in October 1998 on the twenty-fifth…
Memoirs of a Foreign Service Arabist
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Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership
Hart’s three tours of duty in Saudi Arabia, the last as ambassador from 1961 to 1965, gave him a unique…