Table of Contents
Preface xi
Part I
1 The Conflict Begins 3
2 The 1967 War 14
3 Dark Clouds over Amman 22
4 Arriving in America 31
Part II
5 Sandhurst 43
6 Qatraneh Nights 50
7 A Secret Mission 56
8 "You Guys Don't Stand a Chance" 64
9 A Royal Wedding 77
10 Lessons in Diplomacy 86
11 Very Special Operations 100
Part III
12 In the Footsteps of a Legend 111
13 Becoming King 130
14 Friends and Neighbors 142
15 Transforming Jordan 155
16 Desert Deerfield 177
Part IV
17 Jerusalem at the Heart of Conflict 187
18 Seeking Peace, Getting War 196
19 War in the Desert 215
20 "We Will Be Greeted as Liberators" 225
Part V
21 My Islam 239
22 Jordan's 9/11 250
23 The Amman Message 257
Part VI
24 The End of an Era 267
25 The Mask Slips 280
26 A New Voice from America 291
27 Fortress Israel or a Fifty-Seven-State Solution? 307
Acknowledgments 329
Index 333