{"product_id":"9781594030505","title":"Dawn over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military Is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a completely fresh, close-up look at the guerilla struggle in Iraq.   It is built on weeks spent re-embedded with U.S. soldiers in the most dangerous   parts of the Sunni Triangle in early 2004, direct polling of Iraqis, and   unmatched reporting on combat raids, interrogations, daily diplomacy, and   reconstruction heroics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt follows the author's \u003ci\u003eBoots on the   Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e, which was the   first book from an embedded reporter describing the toppling of Saddam Hussein.   Gripping, perceptive, funny, and bluntly honest, \u003ci\u003eBoots\u003c\/i\u003e became the most   popular chronicle of the hot war in Iraq. Now Karl Zinsmeister has again beaten   the pack with this groundbreaking sequel on the counterinsurgency phase of the   war. This is a powerful, cliché-smashing, up-to-the-minute report on America's   most urgent national struggle, as seen through the eyes of ordinary Iraqis and   the U.S. servicemen doing today's dirty work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDawn Over   Baghdad\u003c\/i\u003e takes you into Iraq's urban neighborhoods, rural villages, and   guerilla snake pits, and shows exactly how young American soldiers are quietly   but inexorably choking off a terrorist insurrection and planting the seeds   (sometimes at great personal cost) of a dramatically different Middle East.   Zinsmeister brings home a fascinating, intimate, and insightful story missed by   the major media: With the quiet cooperation of millions of everyday Iraqis, the   U.S. is approaching something historic­success in a tough guerilla   war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIncludes a 32-page section of color photos taken by   the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKarl Zinsmeister spent three months   embedded in combat zones with U.S. soldiers during the first year of the Iraq   war. In 2003 he published \u003ci\u003eBoots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne   in the Battle for Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e. Zinsmeister is editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eThe American   Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e, a national magazine of politics, business, and culture   (TAEmag.com). He is also the J. B. Fuqua Fellow at Washington, D.C.'s American   Enterprise Institute. His writing has appeared in publications like the   \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly, Reader's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e,   and even a Marvel comic-book series of real-life soldiers' tales. A graduate of   Yale University and Trinity College, Dublin, and a former assistant to U.S.   Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, he has testified before Congressional   committees and Presidential commissions numerous times, and appears regularly on   television and radio programs. Karl Zinsmeister lives with his wife and children   in rural upstate New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Encounter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056062873840,"sku":"9781594030505","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781594030505_p0.jpg?v=1763813026","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781594030505","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}