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The assassins' gate : America in Iraq / George Packer.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Packer, George, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Insurgency--Iraq.
- Insurgency.
- Americans.
- Iraq.
- Civil war--Iraq.
- Civil war.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Occupied territories.
- Americans--Iraq.
- Iraq--Politics and government--2003-.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 467 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
- Summary:
- The Assassins' Gate: America In Iraq recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It brings to life 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 brilliant reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he made four tours on assignment for The New Yorker. We see up close the struggles of American soldiers and civilians and Iraqis from all backgrounds, thrown together by a war that followed none of the preconceived scripts.
- The Assassins' Gate also describes the place of the war in American life: the ideological battles in Washington that led to chaos in Iraq, the ordeal of a fallen soldier's family, and the political culture of a country too bitterly polarized to realize such a vast and morally complex undertaking. George Packer's first-person narrative combines the scope of an epic history with the depth and intimacy of a novel, creating a masterful account of America's most controversial foreign venture since Vietnam.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- An unfinished war
- Fevered minds
- Exiles
- Special plans
- Psychological demolition
- The palace
- The captain
- Occupied Iraqis
- Insurgencies
- Civil war?
- Memorial day
- Simple citizenx
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [453]-455) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0374299633
- OCLC:
- 59401871
- Publisher Number:
- 9780374299637
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