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  • Category: Books (History)
  • Author:  Enders, David
  • Author:  Enders, David
  • ISBN-10:  0472031694
  • ISBN-10:  0472031694
  • ISBN-13:  9780472031696
  • ISBN-13:  9780472031696
  • Publisher:  University of Michigan Press
  • Publisher:  University of Michigan Press
  • Pages:  200
  • Pages:  200
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Oct-2006
  • Pub Date:  01-Oct-2006
  • SKU:  0472031694-11-SPLV
  • SKU:  0472031694-11-SPLV
  • Item ID: 105138221
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David Enders has a stunning independent streak and the courage to trust his own perceptions as he reports from outside the bubble Americans have created for themselves in Iraq.
---Joe Sacco, author ofSafe Area Gorazde

Baghdad Bulletintakes us where mainstream news accounts do not go. Disrupting the easy clichés that dominate U.S. journalism, Enders blows away the media fog of war. The result is a book that challenges Americans to see through double speak and reconsider the warfare being conducted in their names.
---Norman Solomon, author ofWar Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

Journalism at its finest and on a shoestring to boot. David Enders shows that courage and honesty can outshine big-budget mainstream media. Wry but self-critical,Baghdad Bulletintells a story that a few of us experienced but every journalist, nay every citizen, should read.
---Pratap Chatterjee, Managing Editor and Project Director, CorpWatch

Young and tenacious, Dave Enders went, saw, and wrote it down. Here it is-a well-informed and detailed tale of Iraq's decline under American rule.Baghdad Bulletinoffers tragic politics, wacky people, and keen insights about what really matters on the ground in Iraq.
---Christian Parenti

I wrote my first piece forBaghdad Bulletinafter visiting the mass graves at Al-Hilla in 2003. The Baghdad Bulletin was essential reading in the first few months after the end of the war. I handed that particular copy to Prime Minister Tony Blair. I am only sorry that I cannot read it anymore. David Enders and his team were brave, enterprising, and idealistic.
---Rt. Hon. Ann Clwyd, member of the British Parliament


Baghdad Bulletinis a street-level account of the war and turbulent postwar period as seen through the eyes of the young independent journalist David Enders. The book recounts Enders's story of his decision to go l³®