Five best books: America in the Arab world

Michael Oren, a senior fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, is the author of Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East From 1776 to the Present.He selected a five best list of books that "vividly capture the long history of America's encounters with the Arab world" for Opinion Journal.A nineteenth-century title on the list:The