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Fiasco - Abridged by Thomas E. Ricks
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Fiasco - Abridged

The American Military Adventure in Iraq

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Narrator James Lurie
Length 10 hours 16 minutes
Language English
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From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.

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Thomas E. RicksĀ is an adviser on national security at theĀ New America Foundation, where he participates in its ā€œFuture of Warā€ project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor ofĀ Foreign PolicyĀ magazine, for which he writes the prizewinning blogĀ The Best Defense. Ricks covered the US military forĀ The Washington PostĀ from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat atĀ The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prizeā€“winning teams, he covered US military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of several books, includingĀ The Generals,Ā The Gamble, and the number oneĀ New York TimesĀ bestsellerĀ Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

James Lurie has narrated for the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Fox, HBO, NBC, and PBS, among others. Lurie has also worked as a musician and a writer, in addition to beingĀ a doctoral candidate in Chinese history.Ā As an actor he's had recurring roles on many shows, includingĀ Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law & Order, Picket Fences,Ā andĀ As The World Turns. He won a Dramalogue Award in Los Angeles for his stage work.

Thomas E. RicksĀ is an adviser on national security at theĀ New America Foundation, where he participates in its ā€œFuture of Warā€ project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor ofĀ Foreign PolicyĀ magazine, for which he writes the prizewinning blogĀ The Best Defense. Ricks covered the US military forĀ The Washington PostĀ from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat atĀ The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prizeā€“winning teams, he covered US military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of several books, includingĀ The Generals,Ā The Gamble, and the number oneĀ New York TimesĀ bestsellerĀ Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

James Lurie has narrated for the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Fox, HBO, NBC, and PBS, among others. Lurie has also worked as a musician and a writer, in addition to beingĀ a doctoral candidate in Chinese history.Ā As an actor he's had recurring roles on many shows, includingĀ Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law & Order, Picket Fences,Ā andĀ As The World Turns. He won a Dramalogue Award in Los Angeles for his stage work.

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Reviews

"Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"The best account yet of the entire war." Vanity Fair Expand reviews
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