Degrees of Not Knowing
Rory Stewart: Does anyone know how to govern Iraq?, 31 March 2005
What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building
by Noah Feldman.
Princeton, 154 pp., £12.95, November 2004,0 691 12179 6 Show More
by Noah Feldman.
Princeton, 154 pp., £12.95, November 2004,
Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam’s Iraq
by Matthew McAllester.
Harper Perennial, 304 pp., $13.95, February 2005,0 06 058820 9 Show More
by Matthew McAllester.
Harper Perennial, 304 pp., $13.95, February 2005,
The Fall of Baghdad
by Jon Lee Anderson.
Little, Brown, 389 pp., £20, February 2005,0 316 72990 6 Show More
by Jon Lee Anderson.
Little, Brown, 389 pp., £20, February 2005,
The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq
by Christian Parenti.
New Press, 211 pp., £12.99, December 2004,1 56584 948 5 Show More
by Christian Parenti.
New Press, 211 pp., £12.99, December 2004,
“... less than two years ago. The best recent descriptions of Iraqi society have been by journalists. Matthew McAllester of Newsday has assembled a remarkable range of informants and illuminates issues from unexpected angles. Uncovering a mass grave, he is able to provide biographies of the corpses, witnesses who were present at their shooting and ... ”
