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Astonishing in its scale and ambition, this is the most balanced and accomplished book about the Iraq war so far. "The Assassins' Gate" recounts how ...Show synopsisAstonishing in its scale and ambition, this is the most balanced and accomplished book about the Iraq war so far. "The Assassins' Gate" recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It tells the story of the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassin's Gate - the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he made several tours on assignment for "The New Yorker". We see up close the struggles of individual American soldiers and civilians and Iraqis from all backgrounds, including returning exiles, thrown together by a war that followed none of the preconceived scripts. "The Assassins' Gate" also describes the effect of the Iraq war on American life, including the ordeal of a fallen soldier's family and the shortcomings of a political culture too impoverished in its knowledge of the world and too bitterly polarized to debate complex moral and strategic questions.Hide synopsis
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Farrar Straus Giroux) – Hardcover (2005)
by
George Packer
Hardcover, Farrar Straus Giroux 2005
English
467 pages
ISBN: 0374299633 ISBN-13: 9780374299637
Packer's intimate first-person narrative navigates his journey through the landscapes of America and Iraq while tracing his own evolving views, bringing to the page the full range of ideas and emotions stirred up by America's most controversial foreign-policy venture since Vietnam.Packer's intimate first-person narrative navigates his journey through the landscapes of America and Iraq while tracing his own evolving views, bringing to the page the full range of ideas and emotions stirred up by America's most controversial foreign-policy venture since Vietnam.Hide
Description:Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued...Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 467 p.
Description:Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued...Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 467 p.
Description:Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued...Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 467 p.
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This depressing but informative book shows how true believers who thought they had re-invented modern war mishandled America's great adventure in Iraq from planning to execution. Even when decisions were demonstrably harmful from the start, the planners forged ahead as if immune to fallout from the ...
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