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The Arab World

William R. Polk
Reviewed by John C. Campbell
Spring 1981
The Arab World
William R. Polk
Harvard University Press
1980
456 pp.
$22.50
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The fifth edition of the familiar and distinguished The United States and the Arab World appears with a shortened title and lengthened coverage. The author has changed some views and approaches with the passing years, and devoted two new chapters to the foreign policy record of the Nixon-Ford and Carter Administrations.

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