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The Assassins' Gate : America in Iraq by Packer, George, 1960- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book ReviewNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, TheSan Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine.Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book on International AffairsWinner of the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismThe 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 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 best-selling first-person narrative combin
Who reads The Assassins' Gate : America in Iraq?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Packer, George, 1960-
- Publisher
- New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374530556
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.05 / 5 (2,272 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14