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# Deep dive on oil politics Global power shifts Previously classified docs The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East

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## Summary

> 📚 Unlock the hidden oil power plays that shaped today's world.

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- **What is this?** The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
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## Key Features

- • **Inside the 1970s Power Pivot:** Discover why the U.S. shifted allegiance from Iran to Saudi Arabia, reshaping Middle East geopolitics.
- • **Economic Turmoil & Global Impact:** Understand how oil crises triggered financial instability still echoing today.
- • **Exclusive Interviews & Revelations:** Gain insights from key political figures behind historic decisions.
- • **Unearthed Secrets of Oil Diplomacy:** Access rare, declassified documents revealing Cold War oil strategies.
- • **A Must-Read for Policy & Energy Enthusiasts:** Stay ahead in conversations about energy, politics, and global power dynamics.

## Overview

The Oil Kings is a meticulously researched historical account revealing how oil influenced U.S. foreign policy in the 1970s, spotlighting the pivotal shift from Iran to Saudi Arabia. Drawing on newly declassified documents and exclusive interviews, it exposes the geopolitical maneuvers and economic crises that continue to impact global affairs.

## Description

“Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time when Cold War imperatives still applied,”* and tells why in the 1970s the U.S. switched its Middle East allegiance from the Shah of Iran to the Saudi royal family. While America struggles with a recess ion, oil prices soar, revolution rocks the Middle East, European nations risk defaulting on their loans, and the world teeters on the brink of a possible global financial crisis. This is not a description of the present, however, but the 1970s. In The Oil Kings, Andrew Cooper tells the story of how oil came to dominate U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Drawing on newly declassified documents and interviews with some of the key figures of the time, Cooper follows the political posturing and backroom maneuvering that led the U.S. to switch to OPEC as its main supplier of oil from the Shah of Iran, a loyal ally and leading customer for American weapons. The subsequent loss of U.S. income destabilized the Iranian economy, while the U.S. embarked on a long relationship with the autocratic Saudi kingdom that continues to this day. Brilliantly reported and filled with astonishing revelations—including how close the U.S. came to sending troops into the Persian Gulf to break the Arab oil embargo and how U.S. officials offered to sell nuclear power and nuclear fuel to the Shah— The Oil Kings is the history of an era that we thought we knew, an era whose momentous reverberations still influence events at home and abroad today.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #682,307 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #32 in Saudi Arabia History #112 in Oil & Energy Industry (Books) #173 in Iran History |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 231 Reviews |

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