Assassins Gate: America in Iraq (Record no. 222076)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0571230431
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Transcribing agency AL
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
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Edition number 23
Classification number 956.70443
Item number PACA
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Personal name George Packer
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Title Assassins Gate: America in Iraq
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Faber and Faber
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2006
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 467 p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 23.5x15.5 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Astonishing in its scale and ambition, this is the most balanced and accomplished book about the Iraq war so far. "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 tells the story of the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassin's Gate - the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he made several tours on assignment for "The New Yorker". We see up close the struggles of individual American soldiers and civilians and Iraqis from all backgrounds, including returning exiles, thrown together by a war that followed none of the preconceived scripts. "The Assassins' Gate" also describes the effect of the Iraq war on American life, including the ordeal of a fallen soldier's family and the shortcomings of a political culture too impoverished in its knowledge of the world and too bitterly polarized to debate complex moral and strategic questions.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Iraq War, 2003
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Insurgency -- Iraq
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Civil war-Iraq
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Americans -Iraq
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Topical term or geographic name entry element United States -- Politics and government -- 2001
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Personal name PACKER (George)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     History St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   956.70443 PACA GF03390 03/29/2022 03/29/2022 George Fernandes Collections