The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

Name: The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
Author: George Packer
ISBN: 9780374705329

George Packer

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George Packer

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The Assassins' Gate won the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International Affairs and the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and was named one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and a best book 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. 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 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. It 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.

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