num_pages: 512
description: Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine.  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’ Gate—the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The Assassins’ Gate also describes the place of the war in American life: the ideological battles in Washington that led to chaos in Iraq, the ordeal of a fallen soldier’s family, and the political culture of a country too bitterly polarized to realize such a vast and morally complex undertaking. George Packer’s best-selling first-person narrative combines the scope of an epic history with the depth and intimacy of a novel, creating a masterful account of America’s most controversial foreign venture since Vietnam.
language: English
title: The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
titlecomplete: The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq
genres: Political Science, Politics, International Relations, Military Fiction, American History, War, Nonfiction, History, Military History, Journalism
ratings_count: 3023
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Helen Bernstein Book Award
category: Excellence in Journalism, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Arthur Ross Book Award
category: Honorable Mention, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Cornelius Ryan Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux