TY - BOOK AU - Gardner,Lloyd C. TI - Long Road to Baghdad: a History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present SN - 9781595584045 (hbk.) PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - New Press KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - Causes KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - 2001-2009 N2 - A sweeping and authoritative narrative, The Long Road to Baghdad places the Iraq War in the context of U.S. foreign policy since Vietnam, casting the conflict as a chapter in a much broader story of American diplomatic and military moves in the region. With'a keen grasp of sprawling subject matter' (Kirkus), Lloyd Gardner, one of the nation's premier diplomatic historians, illuminates a vital historical thread connecting Walt Whitman Rostow's defense of U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, Zbigniew Brzezinski's renewed attempts to project American power into the'arc of crisis' (with Iran at i UR - http://www.ezplib.ukm.edu.my/login?url=http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=584795 ER -