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Author: Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint: Penguin USA
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.550kg
ISBN: 9780143038917
ISBN 10: 0143038915
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 31 July 2007
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Compelling and well-researched . . . Fiasco pulls no punches. . . . News on Iraq usually comes with blaring headlines, but Ricks work allows us to fit seemingly disparate events into an overall pattern. ( The Washington Post )
Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The best account yet of the entire war. - Vanity Fair
"""Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading."" —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ""The best account yet of the entire war."" —Vanity Fair"
A comprehensive and illuminating portrait of the willful blindness of the Bush administration to Iraqi realities. ( The New York Times Book Review ) Fiasco is not a screed but a well-researched, strongly written account of the miscues that led from shock-and-awe to rampant sectarian strife. ( Los Angeles Times ) The title of this devastating new book about the American war in Iraq says it all. . . . Absolutely essential reading . . . [This] volume gives the reader a lucid, tough-minded overview of this tragic enterprise that stands apart from earlier assessments in terms of simple coherence and scope. (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ) It is not an exaggeration, or at least not much of one, to say that with his new book, Fiasco , Thomas Ricks has changed the debate over Iraq. . . . It may leave your hand shaking just a bit when you finish and put it down. (Slate.com) Compelling and well-researched . . . Fiasco pulls no punches. . . . News on Iraq usually comes with blaring headlines, but Ricks' work allows us to fit seemingly disparate events into an overall pattern. ( The Washington Post ) Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The best account yet of the entire war. -Vanity Fair aStaggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading.a aMichiko Kakutani, The New York Times aThe best account yet of the entire war.a a Vanity Fair
Author Information
Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its “Future of War” project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, for which he writes the prizewinning blog The Best Defense. Ricks covered the U.S. military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he covered U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of several books, including The Generals, The Gamble, and the number one New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His newest book, Churchill and Orwell: The Fight For Freedom, is a New York Times bestseller.
