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Blaine Harden

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Moses Lake, Washington, The United States

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Harden is an author and journalist who worked for The Washington Post for 28 years as a correspondent in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as in New York and Seattle. He was also a national correspondent for The New York Times and writer for the Times Magazine. He has contributed to The Economist and PBS Frontline.

Harden's newest book, "Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the
American West." New York Times columnist Tim Egan calls it a "terrific" deconstruction of a Big Lie about the West. The LA Times calls the book "terrifically readable." The Spokesman Review (Spokane, Wa.) raves that Murder at the Mission is "a richly detailed and expertly researched account of how a concocted story... ...more

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	Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 3.99 avg rating — 65,294 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and The Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom 4.03 avg rating — 1,350 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia 4.17 avg rating — 467 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West 4.08 avg rating — 373 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America's Spymaster in Korea 3.72 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 2017 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent 4.02 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I am evolving from being an animal,' he said. 'But it is going very, very slowly. Sometime I try to cry and laugh like other people, just to see if it feels like anything. Yet tears don't come. Laughter doesn't come.”
― Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

tags: humanity, recovery

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“High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn't bomb the rail lines to Hitler's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il's camps, and did nothing.”
― Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

tags: humanity, ignorance, justice, war

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“I escaped physically,' he said. 'I haven't escaped psychologically.”
― Blaine Harden, Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

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Fuga dal Campo 14 di Blaine Harden

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La ragazza dai sette nomi: La mia fuga dalla Corea del Nord di Hyeonseo Lee

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Per mano nel buio di Barbara Demick

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La mia lotta per la libertà di Yeonmi Park

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La saga dei 3 Kim di Domenico Vecchioni

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Una produzione Kim Jong-Il: La storia incredibile ma vera della Corea del Nord e del più audace rapimento di tutti i tempi di Paul Fischer

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Pyongyang di Guy Delisle

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Dossier Corea: Viaggio nel regime più isolato del mondo di Geri Morellini

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