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Fassihi, Farnaz
WAITING FOR AN ORDINARY DAY The Unraveling of Life in Iraq
Publisher: Publicaffairs New York
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket, 2008, First Edition; First Printing, Hardcover 978-1586484750 Used in boards and DJ. A clean, tight copy. Minor bumping to the boards, edgewear to the DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages; Since 2003, Iraq’s bloody legacy has been well-documented by journalists, historians, politicians, and others confounded by how Americans were seduced into the war. Yet almost no one has spoken at length to the constituency that represents Iraq’s last best hope for a stable country: its ordinary working and middle class. Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journal’s intrepid senior Middle East correspondent, bridges this gap by unveiling an Iraq that has remained largely hidden since the United States declared their “Mission Accomplished. ” Fassihi chronicles the experience of the disenfranchised as they come to terms with the realities of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. In an unforgettable portrait of Iraqis whose voices have remained eerily silent—from art gallery owners to clairvoyants, taxi drivers to radicalized teenagers—Fassihi brings to life the very people whose goodwill the U. S. Depended upon for a successful occupation. Haunting and lyrical, Waiting for An Ordinary Day tells the long-awaited story of post-occupation Iraq through native eyes.
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Item number: 9305.
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Galbraith, Peter W.
THE END OF IRAQ How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks New York
Very Good, 2007, First Paperback Edition, Paperback 9780743294249 Used in trade paperback. A clean, tight copy. Minor aging to the paper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 275 pages; THE END OF IRAQ -- definitive, tough-minded, clear-eyed, describes America's failed strategy toward that country.
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Item number: 8686.
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Hiro, Dilip
IRAQ: In the Eye of the Storm
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books New York
Very Good, 2002, First Printing, Paperback 1560254777 Used in wraps. A clean, tight copy. Small red remainder mark to lower page edges, slight aging to the pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 271 pages
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Item number: 7446.
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Pax, Salam
SALAM PAX The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi
Publisher: Grove Press New York
Very Good+, 2003, First American Edition; First Printing, Paperback 0802140440 Used in trade paperback. A bright, clean copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 206 pages; Salam Pax has attracted a huge worldwide readership for the Internet diary he kept during the buildup, prosecution, and aftermath of the war in Iraq. Bringing his incisive and sharply funny Web postings together in print for the first time, Salam Pax provides one of the most gripping accounts of the Iraq conflict and will be the subject of global media attention. In September 2002, twenty-nine-year-old Iraqi architect calling himself "Salam Pax" began posting daily accounts of everyday life in Baghdad onto the Internet. Salam daily risked retribution from Saddam's regime, as more than 200, 000 people went missing under Saddam, many for far lesser crimes than the open criticism of the regime that Salam voiced in his diary. Salam Pax's sharp, candid, and often dryly funny articles soon attracted a worldwide readership. In the months that followed, as a huge American-led force gathered to destroy Saddam's hated regime, Salam's Internet diary became a unique record of the anticipation, anger, resentment, humor, and sheer terror felt by an ordinary man living through the final days of Saddam Hussein's twenty-five-year dictatorship, and the aftermath of its destruction.
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Item number: 8633.
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Tripp, Charles
A HISTORY OF IRAQ 2nd Edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press New York
Good+, 2002, Second Edition, Paperback 052152900x Used in trade paperback. About four pages of blue highlighting to one chapter; otherwise a clean and tight copy. Rubbing and wear to the edges and corners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages; In response to current events, Charles Tripp has updated his incisive book A History of Iraq to include developments as recent as mid-2002. Since its establishment by the British in the 1920s, Iraq has witnessed the rise and fall of successive authoritarian regimes, competing ruthlessly for power and resources. This struggle culminated in the dictatorship of Saddam Husain, who still maintains his grip over a fragmented and increasingly isolated society. Tripp's book traces Iraq's political history from its nineteenth-century roots in the Ottoman empire, to the development of the state, its transformation from monarchy to republic and the rise of the Ba'th party and the ascendancy and current rule of Saddam Husain. This is a story of social conflict, of power struggles between rival clans, of hostility and wars with neighboring states, as well as of their aftermath, and Iraq's deteriorating relations with the West. A History of Iraq offers incisive analysis of the making of a modern state and how it creates its own distinctive politics.
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Item number: 9214.
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