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The Book Imperial Life in the Emerald City is an unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
A groundbreaking account of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of the men who fought it, from NPR’s Moscow correspondent.
by Thomas E. Ricks
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq-The Gamble is the next newsbreaking installment
by Karl Rove
Publisher: Threshold Editions
The presentation of the publisher : from the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America’s political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned a Texas dominated by Democrats into a bastion for Republicans. He launched George W. Bush to national renown by unseating a popular Democratic governor, and then orchestrated a GOP - the Republican party - White House win at a time when voters had little reason to throw out the incumbent party. For engineering victory after unlikely victory, Rove became known as “the Architect.” More …
by Con Coughlin
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
From the bestselling author of Saddam comes the definitive biography of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic revolution and how his fundamentalist legacy has forever influenced the course of Iran’s relationship with the West. More …
by Ray Takeyh
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
The presentation of the publishe: For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America’s chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating against the Axis of Evil, Iranian support for Hezbollah, and President Ahmadinejad blaming the U.S. for the world’s ills. More …
by Seth G. Jones
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
“How we got to where we are in Afghanistan.”-Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street Journal
In the Graveyard of Empires, Seth Jones’s history of post-invasion Afghanistan, is at its best when it describes the follies and occasional acts of heroism emanating from the patchwork of nations that now take collective responsibility for Afghanistan. More …
by Sarah Palin
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
“Whatever your opinion of this woman is, she is a force in American politics”.
The presentation of the publishers : One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is.
On September 3, 2008 Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world.
by Deborah Amos
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Deborah Amos, who covers Iraq for National Public Radio, is out with a new book that examines the effect the Iraq War has had on the four million Sunnis displaced by the downfall of Saddam Hussein’s regime.