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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
In the fall of 2003, Stanford professor Larry Diamond received a call from Condoleezza Rice, asking if he would spend several months in Baghdad as an adviser to the American occupation authorities. Diamond had not been a supporter of the war in Iraq, but he felt that the task of building a viable democracy was a worthy goal. But when he went to Iraq, his experiences proved to be more of an education than he bargained for. Squandered Victory is Diamond’s provocative and vivid account of how the American effort to establish democracy in Iraq was hampered not only by insurgents and terrorists but also by a long chain of miscalculations, missed opportunities, and acts of ideological blindness that helped assure that the transition to independence would be neither peaceful nor entirely democratic. And in a new Afterword for the paperback edition, Diamond shows how the ongoing instability in Iraq is a direct result of the shortsighted choices made during the fourteen months of the American occupation and the subsequent Iraqi interim government.
“A forceful and detailed critique of the invasion’s aftermath. . . . A searing indictment.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Larry Diamond has a flair for making incisive points at the right moment. . . . [Squandered Victory] explodes with the frustrations he felt working for the U.S. occupation.” —The New Republic
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Frontier Justice in the Wild West: Bungled, Bizarre, and Fascinating Executions
Frontier Justice highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Each action-packed chapter includes biographical information, the pursuit, the investigation, legal maneuvers, trial information, and rarely-seen photographs. .
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A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (Studies in Social Medicine)
In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight—she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the complexities of American medicine, prompting contentious debate about new patterns and old problems in immigration, the hidden epidemic of medical error, the lines separating transplant "haves" from "have-nots," the right to sue, and the challenges posed by "foreigners" crossing borders for medical care. This volume draws together experts in history, sociology, medical ethics, communication and immigration studies, transplant surgery, anthropology, and health law to understand the dramatic events, the major players, and the core issues at stake. Contributors view the Santillan story as a morality tale: about the conflicting values underpinning American health care; about the politics of transplant medicine; about how a nation debates deservedness, justice, and second chances; and about the global dilemmas of medical tourism and citizenship. Contributors:
Charles Bosk, University of Pennsylvania
Leo R. Chavez, University of California, Irvine
Richard Cook, University of Chicago
Thomas Diflo, New York University Medical Center
Jason Eberl, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Jed Adam Gross, Yale University
Jacklyn Habib, American Association of Retired Persons
Tyler R. Harrison, Purdue University
Beatrix Hoffman, Northern Illinois University
Nancy M. P. King, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barron Lerner, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Susan E. Lederer, Yale University
Julie Livingston, Rutgers University
Eric M. Meslin, Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Susan E. Morgan, Purdue University
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, University of California, Berkeley
Rosamond Rhodes, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Carolyn Rouse, Princeton University
Karen Salmon, New England School of Law
Lesley Sharp, Barnard and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Lisa Volk Chewning, Rutgers University
Keith Wailoo, Rutgers University.
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Inside the green zone: a former CPA advisor details just how dysfunctional the Iraq occupation was.(On Political Books)(Squandered Victory: The American ... Review): An article from: Washington Monthly
This digital document is an article from Washington Monthly, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1347 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Inside the green zone: a former CPA advisor details just how dysfunctional the Iraq occupation was.(On Political Books)(Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)(Book Review) Author: Ed Kilgore Publication:Washington Monthly (Magazine/Journal) Date: September 1, 2005 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 37 Issue: 9 Page: 51(3) Article Type: Book Review Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Bungled ballots.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor): An article from: Washington Monthly
This digital document is an article from Washington Monthly, published by Washington Monthly Company on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1057 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Bungled ballots.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor) Author: Andrew Gumbel Publication:Washington Monthly (Magazine/Journal) Date: January 1, 2006 Publisher: Washington Monthly Company Volume: 38 Issue: 1-2 Page: 4(2) Article Type: Letter to the Editor Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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You Break It, You Buy It.(Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)(Book Review): An article from: Commonweal
This digital document is an article from Commonweal, published by Thomson Gale on September 9, 2005. The length of the article is 996 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: You Break It, You Buy It.(Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)(Book Review) Author: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Publication:Commonweal (Magazine/Journal) Date: September 9, 2005 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 132 Issue: 15 Page: 30(3) Article Type: Book Review Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Red-light-cam rerun en route; City lost $50 million in revenue under bungled original contract.(City): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press
This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on October 12, 2007. The length of the article is 1120 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Red-light-cam rerun en route; City lost $50 million in revenue under bungled original contract.(City) Author: Gale Reference Team Publication:Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal) Date: October 12, 2007 Publisher: Thomson Gale Page: a3 Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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