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100 1 _aPacker, George,
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245 1 4 _aThe assassins' gate :
_bAmerica in Iraq /
_cGeorge Packer.
_hPR
250 _afirst edition.
260 _aNew York :
_bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,
_c(c)2005.
300 _a467 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _a2
505 0 0 _aPrologue: the assassins' gate --
_tAn unfinished war --
_tFevered minds --
_tExiles --
_tSpecial plans --
_tPsychological demolition --
_tThe palace --
_tThe captain --
_tOccupied Iraqis --
_tInsurgencies --
_tCivil war? --
_tMemorial day --
_tThe birth of politics --
_tEpilogue.
520 0 _aThis book 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 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 book also describes the war in American life: the ideological battles in Washington, the ordeal of a fallen soldier's family, and the political culture of a country too polarized to realize such a vast and morally complex undertaking.--From publisher description.
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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.
856 4 1 _zTable of contents only
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856 4 2 _zContributor biographical information
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856 4 2 _zPublisher description
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856 4 1 _zSample text
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