The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review...
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Author: George Packer
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by Packer, George

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

Dhs. 122.59

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

Dhs. 122.59
Author: George Packer
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine.

Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International Affairs

Winner of the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

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 Assassins' Gate--the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad.

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 best-selling 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.

Author: George Packer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/19/2006
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780374530556


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/15/2006 pg. 28

About the Author
GEORGE PACKER is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is also the author of two novels, The Half Man and Central Square, and two other works of nonfiction, Blood of the Liberals, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and The Village of Waiting. His play, Betrayed, ran for five months in 2008 and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. His most recent book is Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. He lives in Brooklyn.

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