St. Martin's Press
Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
Key Metrics
- Anthony Shadid
- St. Martin's Press
- Paperback
- 9780312426033
- 8.2 X 5.5 X 1.2 inches
- 1.05 pounds
- History > Middle East - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Winner of the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A Washington Post Book World Top Five Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Seattle Times Top Ten Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In 2003, The Washington Post's Anthony Shadid went to war in Iraq, but not as an embedded journalist. Born and raised in Oklahoma, of Lebanese descent, Shadid, a fluent Arabic speaker, has spent the last three years dividing his time between Washington, D.C., and Baghdad. The only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his extraordinary coverage of Iraq, Shadid is also the only writer to describe the human story of ordinary Iraqis weathering the unexpected impact of America's invasion and occupation. Through the moving stories of individual Iraqis, Shadid shows how Saddam's downfall paved the way not just for hopes of democracy but also for the importation of jihad and the rise of a bloody insurgency. A superb reporter's book, wrote Seymour Hersh; Night Draws Near is, according to Mark Danner, essential.
Author Bio
Anthony Shadid was a two-time Pulitzer prize winner journalist and was based in Beirut and Baghdad. He was foreign correspondent for The New York Times.
Previously he worked for The Washington Post, Boston Globe, and the Associated Press.
Shadid graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He was killed by a Israeli sniper bullet in the West Bank while reporting for the Boston Globe.
Source: The Boston Globe
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