Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times,
The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The
Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review,
The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New York Times Book
Review, USA Today, Time, and New York magazine.
The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq recounts how the
United States set about changing the history of the Middle
East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It
brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush
administration’s war policy and led America to the
Assassins’ Gate—the main point of entry into the American
zone in Baghdad.
The Assassins’ Gate also describes the place of the war in
American life: the ideological battles in Washington that
led to chaos in Iraq, the ordeal of a fallen soldier ’s
family, and the political culture of a country too bitterly
polarized to realize such a vast and morally complex
undertaking. George Packer’s best-selling first-person
narrative combines the scope of an epic history with the
depth and intimacy of a novel, creating a masterful account
of America’s most controversial foreign venture since Vietnam.
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