Lloyd Gardner
- Affiliation: Rutgers University
Lloyd C. Gardner is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including The Long Road to Baghdad, The Road to Tahrir Square and Three Kings. He lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
Books by Lloyd Gardner
Three Kings
The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II
Lloyd Gardner
From F.D.R. to L.B.J., Three Kings reveals a story of America’s scramble for political influence, oil concessions, and a new military presence based on airpower and generous American aid to shaky regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and Iraq. Marshaling new and revelatory evidence from the archives, Lloyd Gardner deftly weaves together three decades of U.S. moves in the region to offer the first history of America’s efforts to supplant the British empire in the Middle East. From the… (more information)
Road to Tahrir Square
Egypt and the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak
Lloyd Gardner
When protesters in Egypt began to fill Cairo’s Tahrir Square on January 25, 2011, and refused to leave until their demand that Hosni Mubarak step down was met, the politics of the region changed overnight. And the United States’ long friendship with the man who had ruled under emergency law for thirty years came starkly into question. From Franklin D. Roosevelt’s brief meeting with King Farouk near the end of World War II to Barack Obama’s 2009 speech in Cairo and the recent… (more information)