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The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (Paperback)
$16.00
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Description
The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq" (The New York Times Book Review)
A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure is a war story that takes its place among the classics. Acclaimed author Philip Gourevitch presents the story behind a defining moment in the war, and a defining moment in our understanding of ourselves- the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs of prisoner abuse. Drawing on Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris's astonishing interviews with the Americans who took and appeared in the pictures, Standard Operating Procedure is an utterly original book that stands to endure as essential reading long after the current war in Iraq passes from the headlines.
Praise for The Ballad of Abu Ghraib…
"Here, author and journalist Gourevitch and documentary filmmaker Morr
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This book has to be read."
--Newsweek
"A tightly knit and damning narrative... one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq."
-New York Times Book Review
"Philip Gourevitch's exemplary book will take its toll for years."
--The New York Observer
"Philip Gourevitch's exemplary book will take its toll for years."
--The Economist
"Gourevitch's eye for telling detail evokes the best of The New Yorker tradition-Capote's In Cold Blood, Hersey's Hiroshima... Standard Operating Procedure is essential reading for our time."
--The Tennessean
"As much a page-turner as any fictional thriller... A thorough, terrifying account of an American-made 'bedlam,' the latest from Gourevitch is as troubling, and arguably as important, as his 1998 Rwanda investigation We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families."
--Publishers Weekly
"[A] gut wrenching morality check"
--NPR's Talk of the Nation
"Admirable... remarkable power"
--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"A compelling story... [Gourevitch] is a master of looking more closely, which means both more sympathetically and more critically... Gourevitch's account takes us outside the frame, giving us the chance to understand the dynamic of the unit in which violence and romance were S.O.P... The book shows how lawlessness became the law."
--The Los Angeles Times
"Remarkable."
--The Denver Post
"Gourevitch...brings to this study of the Abu Ghraib scandal the same graceful balancing of reportage and insight that marked his extraordinary book on the Rwandan genocide, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families... the shocks arrive through language alone."
--Time Out NY
