false 450512 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 450512 2 439152 2005 The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq total:31|5:6|4:13|3:11|2:1| 31 117 42 2 72573 4.07 167 19 428367 38870 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.80 25 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 3 0 false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Mar 25 19:54:56 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 17:05:51 -0800 2009 26887369 144359 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 4 0 false Thu Jul 10 14:10:02 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 14:12:37 -0700 2008 79586258 42476 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 0 0 false Tue Dec 01 18:42:10 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 18:42:10 -0800 2009 72622966 2779948 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 4 0 false Sat Sep 26 22:18:17 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 22:18:17 -0700 2009 55375515 2297624 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 4 0 false Fri May 08 09:39:06 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 09:39:06 -0700 2009 55302511 1814794 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 5 0 false Thu May 07 15:27:14 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 10:50:12 -0700 2009 47258137 961404 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 3 0 false Mon Feb 23 09:35:36 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 09:35:36 -0800 2009 45069504 1402298 1192729 1565849485 9781565849488 0 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181775355m/1192729.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181775355s/1192729.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1192729.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.67 6 In the tradition of Kapuscinski and Didion, an apocalyptic, firsthand view of the war in Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom. " —Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident on life in the new Iraq

Last year, the most superbly equipped fighting force on the planet was led into the only type of war for which its experts deemed it unprepared: a highly politicized urban counterinsurgency. As the casualties mount, American troops discover there is no plan B, only an ad hoc set of tactics cobbled together and called a strategy.

The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized look at how the war is unfolding. We enter Baghdad as most journalists do —in a convoy of GMC Suburbans racing 95 miles an hour in tight, side-by-side formation. Once in the city, we encounter a relative of Saddam's who's scraping by; a former Fedayeen fighter who loves Limp Bizkit and Michael Bolton; the underage prostitutes who service U.S. soldiers and are hunted by religious vigilantes; the freshly minted MBAs who run the Coalition Provisional Authority's projects on privatization; the somnambulant American press corps and its fierce counterparts from al Jazeera and al Arabia. Finally, we are embedded with U.S. troops, the unworldly, working-class kids left holding the bag, forced to die for a war many of them don't support.

]]> 2005 4 0 false Sun Feb 01 14:44:44 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 14:44:44 -0800 2009 44947708 1293004 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 4 0 false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Jan 31 08:39:16 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 09:29:29 -0800 2009 43938608 125296 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 0 0 false Thu Jan 22 09:59:55 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 09:59:55 -0800 2009 43376008 812131 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 4 0 false Sat Jan 17 12:48:12 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 12:48:12 -0800 2009 37383813 1456962 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 4 0 false Mon Nov 10 19:13:35 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 19:13:35 -0800 2008 27774886 1090022 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 5 0 false Sun Jul 20 07:38:50 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 20 07:38:50 -0700 2008 25786477 211788 1192729 1565849485 9781565849488 0 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181775355m/1192729.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181775355s/1192729.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1192729.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 In the tradition of Kapuscinski and Didion, an apocalyptic, firsthand view of the war in Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom. " —Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident on life in the new Iraq

Last year, the most superbly equipped fighting force on the planet was led into the only type of war for which its experts deemed it unprepared: a highly politicized urban counterinsurgency. As the casualties mount, American troops discover there is no plan B, only an ad hoc set of tactics cobbled together and called a strategy.

The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized look at how the war is unfolding. We enter Baghdad as most journalists do —in a convoy of GMC Suburbans racing 95 miles an hour in tight, side-by-side formation. Once in the city, we encounter a relative of Saddam's who's scraping by; a former Fedayeen fighter who loves Limp Bizkit and Michael Bolton; the underage prostitutes who service U.S. soldiers and are hunted by religious vigilantes; the freshly minted MBAs who run the Coalition Provisional Authority's projects on privatization; the somnambulant American press corps and its fierce counterparts from al Jazeera and al Arabia. Finally, we are embedded with U.S. troops, the unworldly, working-class kids left holding the bag, forced to die for a war many of them don't support.

]]> 2005 0 0 false Sat Jun 28 18:59:19 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 18:59:19 -0700 2008 23173262 128629 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 3 0 false Tue Jun 10 12:24:48 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 18:21:54 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 12:24:48 -0700 2008 21255308 1109787 1192729 1565849485 9781565849488 0 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181775355m/1192729.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181775355s/1192729.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1192729.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 In the tradition of Kapuscinski and Didion, an apocalyptic, firsthand view of the war in Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom. " —Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident on life in the new Iraq

Last year, the most superbly equipped fighting force on the planet was led into the only type of war for which its experts deemed it unprepared: a highly politicized urban counterinsurgency. As the casualties mount, American troops discover there is no plan B, only an ad hoc set of tactics cobbled together and called a strategy.

The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized look at how the war is unfolding. We enter Baghdad as most journalists do —in a convoy of GMC Suburbans racing 95 miles an hour in tight, side-by-side formation. Once in the city, we encounter a relative of Saddam's who's scraping by; a former Fedayeen fighter who loves Limp Bizkit and Michael Bolton; the underage prostitutes who service U.S. soldiers and are hunted by religious vigilantes; the freshly minted MBAs who run the Coalition Provisional Authority's projects on privatization; the somnambulant American press corps and its fierce counterparts from al Jazeera and al Arabia. Finally, we are embedded with U.S. troops, the unworldly, working-class kids left holding the bag, forced to die for a war many of them don't support.

]]> 2005 3 0 false Tue Apr 29 10:49:59 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 10:49:59 -0700 2008 20882480 119880 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 0 0 false Thu Apr 24 08:53:57 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 06 15:32:32 -0800 2008 19566073 1053395 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 4 0 false Sun Apr 06 02:45:38 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 02:45:38 -0700 2008 19469752 915000 450512 1595580379 9781595580375 2 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679m/450512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174877679s/450512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450512.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 An instant classic on America's catastrophic—and indefinite—occupation of Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom."—Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident, on life in the new Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war reporting, here is a rare book that "embeds" with both sides—the U.S. military and the Iraqi resistance.

Acclaimed journalist Christian Parenti takes us on a high-speed ride along treacherous roads to the centers of the ongoing conflict in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr City through the first year of the occupation. He introduces us to relatives waiting anxiously outside the holding fortress of Abu Ghraib and takes a night drive around Baghdad with the insurgents. He recounts the military's use of drugs and prostitutes, the imperial buffoonery of the Green Zone, and the religious ecstasy of the Shiites. And he allows us to witness, close-up and in riveting detail, the cataclysmic violence, rampant gangsterism, and quotidian heroism that is today's Iraq.

As predicted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian, when "historians of tomorrow start writing, they will doubtless have copies of The Freedom close at hand."]]> 2005 0 0 false Fri Apr 04 14:42:06 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 14:42:06 -0700 2008 18321346 167400 1192729 1565849485 9781565849488 0 <![CDATA[The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181775355m/1192729.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181775355s/1192729.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1192729.The_Freedom_Shadows_and_Hallucinations_in_Occupied_Iraq 3.77 31 In the tradition of Kapuscinski and Didion, an apocalyptic, firsthand view of the war in Iraq.

"Ah, the freedom. Look, we have the gas-line freedom, the looting freedom, the killing freedom, the rape freedom, the hash-smoking freedom. I don't know what to do with all this freedom. " —Akeel, a twenty-six-year-old Baghdad resident on life in the new Iraq

Last year, the most superbly equipped fighting force on the planet was led into the only type of war for which its experts deemed it unprepared: a highly politicized urban counterinsurgency. As the casualties mount, American troops discover there is no plan B, only an ad hoc set of tactics cobbled together and called a strategy.

The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized look at how the war is unfolding. We enter Baghdad as most journalists do —in a convoy of GMC Suburbans racing 95 miles an hour in tight, side-by-side formation. Once in the city, we encounter a relative of Saddam's who's scraping by; a former Fedayeen fighter who loves Limp Bizkit and Michael Bolton; the underage prostitutes who service U.S. soldiers and are hunted by religious vigilantes; the freshly minted MBAs who run the Coalition Provisional Authority's projects on privatization; the somnambulant American press corps and its fierce counterparts from al Jazeera and al Arabia. Finally, we are embedded with U.S. troops, the unworldly, working-class kids left holding the bag, forced to die for a war many of them don't support.

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