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I Lost My Love in Baghdad

I Lost My Love in Baghdad

Hastings, Michael

Paperback

Biographies GeneralIraq War (2003-2011)

ISBN10: 141656098X
ISBN13: 9781416560982
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Feb 16 2010
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The wrenching (Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show) first book by acclaimed journalist Michael Hastings (1980-2013), whose unflinching Rolling Stone article Runaway General ended the military career of General Stanley A. McChrystal.

At age twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. He had at his disposal a little Hemingway romanticism and all the apparatus of a twenty-first-century reporter--cell phones, high-speed Internet access, digital video cameras, fixers, drivers, guards, translators. In startling detail, he describes the chaos, the violence, the never-ending threats of bomb and mortar attacks, the front lines that can be a half-mile from the Green Zone, that can be anywhere. This is a new kind of war: private security companies follow their own rules or lack thereof; soldiers in combat get instant messages from their girlfriends and families; members of the Louisiana National Guard watch Katrina's decimation of their city on a TV in the barracks.

Back in New York, Hastings had fallen in love with Andi Parhamovich, a young idealist who worked for Air America. A year into their courtship, Andi followed Michael to Iraq, taking a job with the National Democratic Institute. Their war-zone romance is another window into life in Baghdad. They call each other pet names; they make plans for the future; they fight, usually because each is fearful for the other's safety; and they try to figure out how to get together, when it means putting bodyguards and drivers in jeopardy. Then Andi goes on a dangerous mission for her new employer--a meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters that ends in catastrophe.

I Lost My Love in Baghdad is a searing, unflinching, and revelatory book by a great reporter, who will be remembered for being ambitious, skeptical of power and conventional wisdom, and incredibly brave (Ben Smith, Buzzfeed) and who leaves behind a remarkable legacy (Rolling Stone).

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