The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq - Softcover

Packer, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374530556 ISBN 13: 9780374530556

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic. His previous books include The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (winner of the National Book Award), The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (winner of the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography). He is also the author of two novels and a play, and the editor of a two-volume edition of the essays of George Orwell.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374530556
• ISBN 13: 9780374530556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512