Instead, Packer reports that a small clique of policy people in key administration positions, primarily Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, sought to fundamentally alter the future of the Middle East. In what way is the gate a metaphor for the current situation in Iraq, and America’s role in the world? Nationalistic dreamers, housewives, sectarians, businessmen, exiles, military men, educators, former prisoners, and countless others are recorded with straightforward simplicity and illuminated with great insight. ISBN: 1435277066 (ISBN13: 9781435277069) Average rating: 0.0 (0 ratings) more details. OTHER BOOKS. Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2016. 467 pp. As a meditation on the limits of American power, it's sobering.”―Tom Bissell, The New York Observer“The best book I read in 2005.”―Stephen Elliott, LA Weekly“A brilliantly reported analysis of the war in Iraq.”―GQ“Masterful...Packer's sketch of the prewar debates is subtle, sharp and poignant...His reporting from Iraq was always good, but the book is even better, putting the reader at the side of Walter Benjamin's angel of history, watching helplessly as the wreckage unfolds at his feet.”―Gideon Rose, Washington Post Book World (cover review)“Packer provides page after page of vivid description of the haphazard, poorly planned and almost criminally executed occupation of Iraq. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. It describes the people and ideas that created the Bush Administration's war policy, and what happened when those ideas were applied to Iraq. Unable to add item to List. Praise also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. She also called the work an "authoritative and tough-minded new book". Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2019. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate―the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing Middle-Eastern history and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. George Packer of the New Yorker wrote The Assassins’ Gate, American In Iraq in an attempt to explain the ideas behind the 2003 U.S. invasion, and how they came undone. Why stick to false understanding when you can read such a fair and well informed book about the Iraq War? Also, a deeply moving and far-ranging account of one American, the father of a soldier killed in the war, delves into the consequences of war for those Americans without a voice in national politics. Now I know better, the war was (also) about oil, but also about big ideas and the future of the world and simple faith that America can make great and positive things happen in our complex and bogged down world. America in Iraq. 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. Muddled thinking, according to Packer, in the high offices of the U.S. government as to their mission and goals led to a tone deaf response to responsible, pointed criticism by lower-level people about Iraqi border security issues, problems in Iraqi police and army expansion, corruption in funding of Iraqi government programs, and other such areas. Great book. 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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 AffairsWinner of the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismThe 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. 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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005, Imperial Life in The Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980, To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq. Packer has written an account of the Iraq war that will stand alongside such narrative histories as A Bright Shining Lie, Fire in the Lake and Hell in a Very Small Place. "[1], The New York Times published praise from literary critic Michiko Kakutani, who lauded the book's "wide-angled, overarching take on the Iraq war". [3], The book won the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2021. I'm not sure much of that faith will be around in the next decades. According to the book, figures from Rumsfeld to Vice President Dick Cheney and others refused to consider U.S. involvement in what they viewed as unnecessary "nation-building" for ideological reasons, expecting to only have 30,000 Americans in Iraq by September 2003. Perhaps more interesting than the American leaders, with their pristine, naive philosophies and contradictory justifications, are the many accounts of individual Iraqis caught in the maelstrom. The author concludes having panned the overall job of the administration. [2], Packer writes that planning in various agencies such as U.S. State Department and the National Security Council proved both very right, in terms of the actual military invasion against Hussein's forces that proceeded rapidly with few casualties, and very wrong, in terms of the following occupation and post-war reconstruction. “The most complete, sweeping, and powerful account of the Iraq War.”―Keith Gessen, New York Magazine“A deftly constructed and eloquently told account of the war's origins and aftermath...Packer makes it deeply human and maddeningly vivid.”―Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, Los Angeles Times Book Review“Authoritative and tough-minded.”―Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times“A book that is not only relevant but discerning and provocative. Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2006. 3. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. He begins with Iraqi exile Kanan Makiya and the neoconservatives who argued for creating a democratic Iraq using American military force to overthrow Saddam Hussein. The book's prologue describes the crowds that gather at the Assassins' Gate and gives the history of the gate itself (built by Saddam Hussein as an imitation of antiquity). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 480pp. $26. This book is a rare find, Packer is a journalist who not only digs deep for the stories he tells, but is able to put them within the proper context, a feat rarely attempted and seemingly un-attempted nowadays. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war policy and led America to the Assassins' Gate―the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The article reviews the book “The Assassin’s Gate : America in Iraq” from various perspectives of bureaucracy, policies and politics. Something went wrong. I did two tours in Iraq with the US Army, including one in the “Green Zone” living in Saddam’s palace. He published the work through Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2005. 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. THE ASSASSINS' GATE. The book was also a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize and won the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Free of cant―but not, crucially, of anger―Mr. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2015. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Very informative first hand take on how the Iraq war was bungled. 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