“Randall Fowler’s timely and provocative book addresses an important and enduring question: How did Americans come to see the Middle East as an area of vital U.S. interest? . . . Grounded in the most important case studies of the 1950s, More Than a Doctrine illuminates the long-term significance of this critical turning point in American globalism, which set the stage for decades of regional entanglement.”—Kenneth Osgood, author of Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad

“Deeply researched and cogently argued. . . . This study could not come at a more appropriate time.”—Jerry M. Long, associate professor in the Honors College and director of Middle East Studies at Baylor University and author of Saddam’s War of Words: Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait

“Fowler reveals the ways that future presidents were heirs of Eisenhower’s political precedents and rhetorical warrants that normalized U.S. interventionism as its dominant foreign policy in this war-torn region of the world.”—Shawn J. Parry-Giles, professor of communication at the University of Maryland and author of The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945–1955