Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "the Arab." In Morocco Bound, Brian T. Edwards examines American representations of the Maghreb during three pivotal decades-from 1942, when the United States entered the North African campaign of World War II, through 1973. He reveals how American film and literary,...