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050	1	4	_aHD 9576 _bV837a 2007
100	1		_aVitalis, Robert, _d1955- _936708
245	1	0	_aAmerica's Kingdom : _bMythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier / _cRobert Vitalis
260			_aStanford, CA : _bStanford University Press, _c2007.
300			_axxvii, 353 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, map ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aStanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aForeword -- Cast of characters -- Captive narratives: a brief and unexceptional introduction to the history of firms and states -- Part 1. The nearest faraway place -- Arabian frontiers -- American camp -- The wizards of Dhahran -- Part 2. Desire's empty quarter -- Ayyam al-Kadalak (days of the Cadillac) -- Eye of the desert -- El jefe rojo -- America's kingdom -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520	8		_a"America's Kingdom" debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia, or what is less reverently known as "the deal": oil for security. Taking aim at the long-held belief that the Arabian American Oil Company, ARAMCO, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows that nothing could be further from the truth. What is true is that oil led the U.S. government to follow the company to the kingdom. Eisenhower agreed to train Ibn Sa'ud's army, Kennedy sent jets to defend the kingdom, and Lyndon Johnson sold it missiles. Oil and ARAMCO quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise. Beginning with the establishment of a Jim Crow system in the Dhahran oil camps in the 1930s, the book goes on to examine the period of unrest in the 1950s and 1960s when workers challenged the racial hierarchy of the ARAMCO camps while a small cadre of progressive Saudis challenged the hierarchy of the international oil market. The defeat of these groups led to the consolidation of America's Kingdom under the House of Fahd, the royal faction that still rules today. This is a gripping story that covers more than seventy years, three continents, and an engrossing cast of characters. Informed by first hand accounts from ARAMCO employees and top U.S. government officials, this book offers the true story of the events on the Saudi oil fields. After America's Kingdom, mythmakers will have to work harder on their tales about ARAMCO being magical, honorable, selfless, and enlightened.
610	2	0	_aArabian American Oil Company (Aramco) _936709
610	2	4	_aCompañía Petrolera Arabe Americana _936710 _xHistoria
610	2	4	_aSaudi Aramco _936711 _xHistoria
650		4	_aPetroleum industry and trade _zSaudi Arabia _xHistory.
650		4	_aIndustria y comercio del petróleo _zArabia Saudita _xHistoria _915294
651		4	_zUnited States _aForeign relations _zSaudi Arabia.
651		4	_aEstados Unidos _xRelaciones exteriores _zArabia Saudita _936712
651		4	_zSaudi Arabia _aForeign relations _zUnited States.
651		4	_aArabia Saudita _xRelaciones exteriores _zEstados Unidos _936713
653			_aArabian American Oil Company.
830		0	_aStanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures _936707
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