Download or read book Notes From The Minefield written by Irene L Gendzier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irene Gendzier's critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously believed. In 1958 the United States sent thousands of troops to shore up the Lebanese regime in the face of domestic opp