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Hardcover:
9780415563970 | Routledge, September 15, 2010, cover price $150.00
Paperback:
9780415522816 | Routledge, February 23, 2012, cover price $54.95
A pair of scruffy college students describes how they left their retail jobs at Fenway Park to run the desk in Baghdad's Coalition Provisional Authority that served as an interface between the CPA and the Iraqi people, a job during which they witnessed firsthand the stresses of war on everyday people, as well as a range of disturbing illegal activities. Reprint.
Hardcover:
9781594200915 | Penguin USA, August 3, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes the experiences of two college dropouts who left their lucrative jobs in Boston to work for Baghdad's Coalition Provisional Authority, where they witnessed the stresses of war, as well as a range of illegal activities.
Paperback:
9780143038160 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, July 31, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A pair of scruffy college students describes how they left their retail jobs at Fenway Park to run the desk in Baghdad's Coalition Provisional Authority that served as an interface between the CPA and the Iraqi people, a job during which they witnessed firsthand the stresses of war on everyday people, as well as a range of disturbing illegal activities.
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9780833080479 | Rand Corp, November 4, 2013, cover price $28.50
Hardcover:
9780833082459 | Rand Corp, November 15, 2013, cover price $35.00
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9780737740578 | Greenhaven Pr, July 18, 2008, cover price $27.80
Library:
9780737740561 | Greenhaven Pr, July 18, 2008, cover price $39.40
Hardcover:
9781138831339 | Routledge, February 19, 2015, cover price $168.00
9780374213756, titled "Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | also contains Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood
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9780826497161 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 22, 2007, cover price $16.95
9780826486301 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 1, 2005, cover price $19.95
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9780833058454 | Rand Corp, February 16, 2012, cover price $29.50
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9780786470716 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 6, 2013, cover price $19.99
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9780195333381 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 13, 2011, cover price $27.95
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9780374213756 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | also contains Iraq in the Twenty-first Century: Regime Change and the Making of a Failed State
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9781845194673 | Sussex Academic Pr, May 1, 2011, cover price $74.95
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9780700617791 | Univ Pr of Kansas, March 30, 2011, cover price $39.95
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9781935982036 | Just World Books, December 1, 2010, cover price $20.99
In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's only American employee who spoke Arabic. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq. Appointed as USAID's first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traversed the city's IED-strewn streets, working alongside idealistic Iraqi translators-young men and women sick of Saddam, filled with Hollywood slang, and enchanted by the idea of a peaceful, democratic Iraq. It was not to be. As sectarian violence escalated, Iraqis employed by the U.S. coalition found themselves subject to a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and death. On his first brief vacation, Johnson, swept into what doctors later described as a "fugue state," crawled onto the ledge outside his hotel window and plunged. He would spend the next year in an abyss of depression, surgery, and PTSD-crushed by having failed in Iraq. One day, Johnson received an email from an Iraqi friend, Yaghdan: People are trying to kill me and I need your help. After being identified by a militiaman, Yaghdan had emerged from his house to find the severed head of a dog and a death threat. That email launched Johnson's mission to get help from the U.S. government for Yaghdan and thousands like him abandoned in Iraq. The List Project has now helped more than 1,500 Iraqis find refuge in America. To Be a Friend Is Fatal is Kirk W. Johnson's unforgettable portrait of the human rubble of war and a book that "redeems a measure of pride from a national episode full of tragedy and shame" (George Packer).
Hardcover:
9781476710488 | Scribner, September 3, 2013, cover price $26.00
Paperback:
9781476710495 | Reprint edition (Scribner, October 7, 2014), cover price $16.00
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9781452615592 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 3, 2013), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's only American employee who spoke Arabic.
9781452665597 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 3, 2013), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's only American employee who spoke Arabic.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781452645599 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, September 3, 2013), cover price $83.99
Hardcover:
9780805094367 | Metropolitan Books, September 27, 2011, cover price $25.00
Paperback:
9780805096811 | Metropolitan Books, August 21, 2012, cover price $18.00
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