ISBN: 0-88739-602-X
pp. 158
Size: 6 x 4
Pub Date: 08/2003
Price: $9.95
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Shock and Awe
Paperback Original
Responses to War
Peter Laufer
The news from Iraq continues grim. Americans and Iraqis dying, essential
services crippled. No crowds cheering the Yankees. No so-called weapons
of mass destruction found. Nor Saddam Hussein.
To help put the current crisis in perspective, is the just-released book
Shock and Awe: Responses to War, edited by Peter Laufer.
The book is an anthology, a time capsule marking those three weeks from
the first "shock and awe" bombs over Baghdad to the made-for-TV
US-orchestrated toppling of a Saddam Hussein statue in the conquered
capital. Speeches and op-eds. Essays and letters to editors. First
person accounts from Baghdad. Protest song lyrics. Poetry.
In its pages you'll read:
*Stark reportage from Baghdad by Robert Fisk
*An op-ed by Jimmy Carter defining Bush's war as unjust
*The Beastie Boys' instant Iraq war protest song
*Reports on the Bagdad bombing from American eyewitnesses
*A hope-filled sermon by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
*Anti-Iraq war poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
*An interview with an AWOL anti-Iraq war US Marine
*An essay by George McGovern decrying Bush's war
*The economic price of the war from James K. Galbraith
*Biting parody of the Bush Doctrine by Terry Jones
*Historical perspective offered by the late Robert C. Maynard
*A look to the future from Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Along with a couple of dozen other responses to Gulf War Two.
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