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Freedom: Shadows And Hallucinations In Occupied Iraq - Hardcover

Parenti, Christian

 
9781565849488: Freedom: Shadows And Hallucinations In Occupied Iraq
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1565849485 ISBN 13: 9781565849488
Verlag: The New Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides―the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."


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Christian Parenti is the author of The Soft Cage and Lockdown America. He is a visiting fellow at the CUNY Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, and his articles appear regularly in The Nation. He lives in New York City.


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Verlag
The New Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1565849485
ISBN 13 
9781565849488
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
211
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