false 89283 543103 042520040X 9780425200407 226 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175653791m/543103.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175653791s/543103.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/543103.Generation_Kill 4.10 1058 The Real World, a band of born-again Christians, dopers, Buddhists, and New Agers who gleaned their precepts from kung fu movies and Oprah Winfrey. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary, and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional, and moral horrors ahead, the "First Suicide Battalion" would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.

Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality, and camaraderie of a new American war.]]> 89283 4.06 1384 313 2004 6013435 0399155740 9780399155741 39 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/60/435/6013435-m-1255669865.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/60/435/6013435-s-1255669865.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6013435.Hella_Nation_Looking_for_Happy_Meals_in_Kandahar_Rocking_the_Side_Pipe_Wingnut_s_WarAgainst_the_GAP_and_Other_Adventures_with_the_Totally_Lost_Tribes_of_America 3.67 102 New York Times–bestselling author of Generation Kill, a reporter’s immersion in outsider cultures—“His style owes more to Hunter S. Thompson than to any sort of political correctness” (Newsday).</B>

From his work as a reporter at Hustler magazine, to his National Magazine Award–winning writing for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, Evan Wright has always had an affinity for outsiders—what he calls “the lost tribes of America.” The previously published pieces in this collection chart a deeply personal journey, beginning with his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley, through his raw portrait of a Hollywood überagent-turned-war documentarian and hero of America’s far right. Along the way, Wright encounters runaway teens earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen; radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of corporate America; and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East. His subjects are people for whom the American dream is either just out of grasp, or something they’ve chosen to reject altogether. Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic, Hella Nation is Evan Wright’s meticulously observed tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight amid the nation’s malls and gated communities. The collection also includes an all-new, autobiographical introductory essay by the author.]]> 89283 4.06 1384 313 2009 874197 1576872076 9781576872079 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179096648m/874197.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179096648s/874197.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/874197.Spring_Broke 3.25 4 450418 3.60 5 4 326436 3.43 7 5 89283 4.06 1384 313 2004