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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

December 8, 2005

George Packer columnist, New Yorker

David Greenway writer

George Packer reads from his new book, The Assassin's Gate, and discusses what the war in Iraq says about American life today.

George Packer is the author of Blood of the Liberals, winner of the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and The Village of Waiting. A Guggenheim Fellow, he contributes to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Dissent, and other publications.

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Topics: Culture & Identity | Literature & Philosophy | People & Places | Politics & Public Affairs

Tags: american culture | Authors | Baghdad | George Packer | Iraq war | Military & Warfare | Journalists | Non-Fiction

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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq

Author: George Packer

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2006)

Binding: Paperback, 512 pages

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2001)

Binding: Paperback, 416 pages

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2001)

Binding: Paperback, 336 pages

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