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Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The San 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 Affairs

Winner of the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

The 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'' Gatethe main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad.

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The Assassins Gate

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    A Paperback / softback by George Packer

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 19 September 2006
      ISBN-13 9780374530556
      978-0374530556
      ISBN-10 0374530556

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      Book Synopsis

      Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review

      Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The San 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 Affairs

      Winner of the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

      The 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'' Gatethe main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad.

      The Assassi

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