Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid

Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid

Winner of the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A Washington Post Book World Top Five Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Seattle Times Top Ten Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

In 2003, The Washington Post's Anthony Shadid went to war in Iraq, but not as an embedded journalist. Born and raised in Oklahoma, of Lebanese descent, Shadid, a fluent Arabic speaker, has spent the last three years dividing his time between Washington, D.C., and Baghdad. The only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his extraordinary coverage of Iraq, Shadid is also the only writer to describe the human story of ordinary Iraqis weathering the unexpected impact of America's invasion and occupation. Through the moving stories of individual Iraqis, Shadid shows how Saddam's downfall paved the way not just for hopes of democracy but also for the importation of jihad and the rise of a bloody insurgency. A superb reporter's book, wrote Seymour Hersh; Night Draws Near is, according to Mark Danner, essential.

Anthony Shadid (1968-2012), an unrivaled chronicler of the human tales behind the news, won notoriety and prizes for his front-page dispatches in the Washington Post from Iraq, including the Pulitzer Prize. He was the sole Arabic-speaking American reporter on the scene. He won his second Pulitzer as the New York Times' senior Middle East correspondent.

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ISBN 13	9780805076028
ISBN 10	0805076026
Title	Night Draws Near
Author	Anthony Shadid
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Henry Holt & Company Inc
Year published	2005-10-01
Number of pages	424
Prizes	Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2005, Commended for Oklahoma Book Award (Nonfiction) 2006, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2005, Short-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 2006
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