Beyond the Noise: Exploring the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
*Thicker Than Oil: America’s Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia By Rachel Bronson Oxford University Press, 384 pages, $28. In her new book, “Thicker Than Oil: America’s Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia,” scholar Rachel Bronson fires an opening shot by asserting that “recent books seem more intent on feeding public outrage than on seriously probing the…