America & Islam

Scrutinizes America's relationship with Islam, showing how and why it has been so fractious, damaging and self-defeating.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Reviews
Author's Note
Preface to the New Edition
About the Author
Introduction
Section I: Politics - The Muslim Bogeyman
Chapter 1: Media Codependence
Chapter 2: Prisoners of The Long War
Chapter 3: The American Taliban
Chapter 4: Cogitative Dissonance
Chapter 5: The Morning After
Section II: (Mis)Perceptions - Separating Fact from Fiction
Chapter 6: Not All Islamists Want Your Head
Chapter 7: The Myth of the Muslim Monolith
Chapter 8: How the West Created Radical Islam
Chapter 9: The Islamic States of America
Section III: Policies - Seeing Black & White in a Sea of Gray
Chapter 10: Brotherhood of the Orb
Chapter 11: The Wahhabi Project
Chapter 12: Tempest in the Gulf
Chapter 13: Between Iran and a Hard Place
Chapter 14: Return of the Ottomans
Section IV: Prospects - Islam Beyond Trump
Chapter 15: The Prince
Chapter 16: The Americanization of Islam
Chapter 17: Voices of Reason
Chapter 18: Islam UnTrumped
Chapter 19 Deals
Chapter 20. Enter Joe Biden
Chapter 21. Abandon Harris
Chapter 22. He's Baaack
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Lawrence Pintak is an award-winning former CBS News Middle East correspondent and founding dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. He is the author of seven books at the intersection of religion, media and policy and holds a PhD in Islamic Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Pintak
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.11.2025
• EAN: 9781350556362
• ISBN: 978-1-350-55636-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, North America, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Reportage & collected journalism, North America (USA and Canada), Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities