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My Year in Iraq (Abridged): The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope Audiobook
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“Baghdad was burning”
With these words, Ambassador L. Paul “Jerry” Bremer begins his gripping memoir of fourteen danger-filled months as America’s proconsul in Iraq. My Year in Iraq is the only senior insider’s perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime. In vivid, dramatic detail, Bremer reveals the previously hidden struggles among Iraqi politicians and America’s leaders, taking us form the ancient lanes in the holy city of Najaf to the White House Situation Room and the Pentagon E-Ring.
His memoir takes us behind closed doors in Baghdad during hammer-and-tongs negotiations with emerging Iraqi leaders as they struggle to forge the democratic institutions vital to Iraq’s future of hope. He describes his private meetings with President Bush, and we witness heated sessions among members of America’s National Security Council—George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleezza Rice—as Bremer labors to realize the vision he and President Bush share of a free and democratic New Iraq.
My Year in Iraq is required listening for all those interested in the real story of how America responded to its gravest recent overseas crisis.
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“[A] revealing memoir…[It leaves] the reader with a sobering sense of the staggering difficulties of the situation in Iraq.”
— New York Times
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“[A] combative and…harrowing account.”
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“Filled with verbatim accounts of behind-the-scenes conversations and internal memos.”
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“An insider’s view of the harrowing start of the U.S. occupation.”
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“A compelling, tragic, and at times darkly comic read.”
— Los Angeles Times
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About L. Paul Bremer
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, a career diplomat, was the presidential envoy to Iraq from May 2003 to June 2004. During his twenty-three years at the State Department, he served on the personal staffs of six secretaries of state on four continents. In the 1980s, he was ambassador to the Netherlands and ambassador at large for Counter Terrorism. After leaving his government positions, he became managing director of Kissinger Associates. In December 2004, George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his service in Iraq.
About Boyd Gaines
Boyd Gaines is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and an actor whose many film credits include Second Best, I’m Not Rappaport, Heartbreak Ridge, Fame, and Porky’s. He’s won two Tony Awards for performances in the The Heidi Chronicles and the musical She Loves Me. On television he has appeared in A Woman Called Jackie, A Son’s Promise, and in the popular series One Day at a Time.