TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vitalis,Robert
TI  - America's kingdom: mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier 
SN  - 9781844673131 (pbk.)
AV  - HD9576.S33 V58 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Arabian American Oil Company
KW  - History
KW  - Petroleum industry and trade
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-338) and index
N2  - America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as "the deal": oil for security. Exploding the long-established myth that the Arabian American Oil Company, Aramco, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows how oil led the US government to follow the company to the kingdom, and how oil and Aramco quickly became America's largest single overseas private enterprise
ER  -