num_pages: 512
description: The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author's vivid reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he made several tours on assignment for The New Yorker. We see up close the struggles of individual American soldiers and civilians and Iraqis from all backgrounds. Here is the full range of ideas and emotions stirred up by America's most controversial foreign-policy venture since Vietnam.
language: English
title: The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
titlecomplete: The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
genres: War, Politics, Political Science, International Relations, Nonfiction, American History, Military History, Military Fiction, Journalism, History
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: Faber & Faber