The Assassins' Gate
Subtitle: America in Iraq
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: September 19, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780374530556
First sentence: At the time of the Gulf War, in 1991, a man going by the name Samir al-Khalil started appearing on American television news programs.
Description: The Assassins' Gate recounts how the United States set about changing Middle-Eastern history and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq.  It describes the people and ideas that created the Bush Administration's war policy, and what happened when those ideas were applied to Iraq.  It 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.  (back cover copy)
Table of contents: title: Prologue
pagenum: 3; label: 1
title: An Unfinished War
pagenum: 8; label: 2
title: Fevered Minds
pagenum: 39; label: 3
title: Exiles
pagenum: 66; label: 4
title: Special Plans
pagenum: 100; label: 5
title: Psychological Demolition
pagenum: 149; label: 6
title: The Palace
pagenum: 180; label: 7
title: The Captian
pagenum: 219; label: 8
title: Occupied Iraqis
pagenum: 251; label: 9
title: Insurgencies
pagenum: 296; label: 10
title: Civil War?
pagenum: 333; label: 11
title: Memorial Day
pagenum: 370; label: 12
title: Simple Citizens
pagenum: 405; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 442; title: Afterword
pagenum: 453; title: Note on Sources
pagenum: 467; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 471; title: Index
pagenum: 473; title: Reading Group Guide
pagenum: 483