The assassins' gate : America in Iraq
"Hailed as "The Definitive Book about the Iraq War" by Salon, 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 "authoritative and tough-minded" (The New York Times) 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. Book jacket."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
1st pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2006
Nonfiction
481, [5] pages ; 21 cm
9780374530556, 9780374299637, 9780571230440, 0374530556, 0374299633, 057123044X
73147464
Prologue
An unfinished war
Fevered minds
Exiles
Special plans
Psychological demolition
The palace
The captain
Occupied Iraqis
Insurgencies
Civil war?
Memorial day
Simple citizens
Epilogue
Afterword
Includes "Reading Group Guide" ([5] p.)
"Published in 2005 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux."--Title page verso