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008 050420s2005 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0374299633 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aDS79.76$b.P33 2005
100 1 $aPacker, George,$d1960-
245 14 $aThe assassins' gate :$bAmerica in Iraq /$cGeorge Packer.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2005.
300 $a467 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 1 $a"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 consequences of that policy are shown in the author's 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 an account of America's most controversial foreign venture since Vietnam."--BOOK JACKET
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [453]-455) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue -- An unfinished war -- Fevered minds -- Exiles -- Special plans -- Psychological demolition -- The palace -- The captain -- Occupied Iraqis -- Insurgencies -- Civil war? -- Memorial day -- Simple citizens -- Epilogue.
650 0 $aIraq War, 2003-
650 0 $aInsurgency$zIraq.
650 0 $aCivil war$zIraq.
650 0 $aIraq War, 2003-$xOccupied territories.
650 0 $aAmericans$zIraq.
651 0 $aIraq$xPolitics and government$y2003-
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-
856 41 $3Table of contents online$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005011521.html
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