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A kingdom of their own : the family Karzai and the Afghan disaster / Joshua Partlow.
Van Pelt Library DS371.412 .P37 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partlow, Joshua, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Karzai, Hamid, 1957-.
- Karzai, Hamid.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Afghanistan--Foreign relations.
- Afghanistan.
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--Afghanistan.
- United States.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
- Summary:
- "The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the U.S.--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former Washington Post Kabul bureau chief"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A rescue from demons
- Any path will lead you there
- So much in love
- Jump-starting a country
- Because we see more, we do more
- Government in a box
- An ordinary Afghan
- Smashing the china shop
- Close cousins
- Who's running this place?
- Where everyone gets accused
- Couldn't be more helpful
- A movie story
- Making the country great again
- The five fingers
- I hate politics
- Everybody in a corner
- Not religion but history
- The primary purpose of its existence
- Evil in heaven
- The zero option.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title-page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307962645
- 0307962644
- OCLC:
- 933567258
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