Currently I'm reading "America's War For The Greater Middle East" by Andrew Bacevich, and it's very informative but sometimes his narrative jumps around from place to place and time to time, and it gets kind of confusing. Your thoughts on this book?
Also, what else is worth checking out on this subject? I'm looking for anything from post-WWII to present day. TIA!
For general overviews, I think these are all great:
Freedman, Lawrence. A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East. PublicAffairs, 2008.
Little, Douglas. American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945, 3rd edition. University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Makdisi, Ussama. Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001. PublicAffairs, 2010.
Tyler, Patrick. A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East—from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2009.