What I Heard About Iraq

What I Heard About Iraq
Author :
Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 58
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781789609950
ISBN-13 : 178960995X
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Book Synopsis What I Heard About Iraq by : Eliot Weinberger

Download or read book What I Heard About Iraq written by Eliot Weinberger and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iraq War has unleashed such a torrent of opinion - impassioned polemic, neo-con apologia, world-weary cynicism - that it feels like the important truths are being lost in a media feeding-frenzy. Eliot Weinberger eschews the rehtoric of the soapbox in an extraordinary montage of facts, sound bites and testimonies. He assembles an uncompromising and blackly comic narrative, which permits the voices of the war to speak for themselves, and allows the protagonists to damn themselves in their own words. This pocket-sized volume is vast in scope, a work unlike any other you have read on Iraq, which finds an unexpected eloquence in its refusal to join in the facile grand-standing and selective amnesia of so much contemporary commentary.


What I Heard About Iraq Related Books

What I Heard About Iraq
Language: en
Pages: 58
Authors: Eliot Weinberger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-05 - Publisher: Verso Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Iraq War has unleashed such a torrent of opinion - impassioned polemic, neo-con apologia, world-weary cynicism - that it feels like the important truths are
Listening to War
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: J. Martin Daughtry
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have listened to it--and to have listened through it. Listening to Wa
To Start a War
Language: en
Pages: 497
Authors: Robert Draper
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-27 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“Essential . . . one for the ages . . . a must read for all who care about presidential power.” —The Washington Post “Authoritative . . . The most compr
Surge
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Peter R. Mansoor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-29 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“The definitive account . . . A fascinating combination of grand strategy and personal vignettes” (Max Boot, The Wall Street Journal). Finalist for the 2013
What Happened Here
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Eliot Weinberger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-05 - Publisher: Verso Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With wit and anger, the author of the blackly comic What I Heard About Iraq takes us through the administration of the 'Bush junta'. Eliot Weinberger begins wit