Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance

Author/Contributor(s):	McFarland, Victor
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	07/14/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia's huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and executive power and the national-security state.