The Assassins' Gate (75 page)

George Packer

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George Packer is a staff writer for
The New Yorker
and the author of several books, including
Blood of the Liberals
(FSG, 2000), winner of the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Award. He is also the editor of the anthology
The Fight Is for Democracy.
His reporting from Iraq won an Overseas Press Club award. He lives in Brooklyn.

 

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Copyright
© 2005
by George Packer

Afterword copyright
© 2006
by George Packer

Reading Group Guide copyright
© 2006
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC

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Published in
2005
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First paperback edition,
2006

Portions of this work originally appeared, in different form, in
The New Yorker
and
The New York Times Magazine.

Paperback ISBN
-13: 978-0-374-53055-6

Paperback ISBN
-10: 0-374-53055-6

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eISBN 9780374705329

First eBook edition: March 2014