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"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
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Politics and government, Iraq War, 2003-, Occupied territories, Americans, Insurgency, Civil war, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Besatzungspolitik, Iraq War (2003-2011) fast (OCoLC)fst01802311, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Iraq War, 2003, Rebellion, Irakkrieg, Americans, middle east, Iraq, politics and government, United states, politics and government, 2001-2009, New York Times reviewed, General & miscellaneous military history, International relations - general & miscellaneous, General & miscellaneous - politics & government, American revolution - general & miscellaneous, United states, foreign relations, iraq, Iran, politics and governmentPlaces
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
April 10, 2006, Thorndike Press
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
September 19, 2006, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The assassins' gate: America in Iraq
2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The assassins' gate: America in Iraq
2005, Thorndike Press
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"At the time of the Gulf War, in 1991, a man going by the name Samir al-Khalil started appearing on American television news programs."
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