Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks
Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks
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Fiasco
The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Author: Thomas E. Ricks

Narrator: James Lurie

Abridged: 10 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/25/2006

Synopsis

From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.

Unabridged CDs - 20 CDs, 24 hours

About The Author

Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its “Future of War” project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, for which he writes the prizewinning blog The Best Defense. Ricks covered the US military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999 he had the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize–winning teams, he covered US military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of several books, including The Generals, The Gamble, and the number one New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.James Lurie has narrated for the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Fox, HBO, NBC, and PBS, among others. Lurie has also worked as a musician and a writer, in addition to being a doctoral candidate in Chinese history. As an actor he's had recurring roles on many shows, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Law & Order, Picket Fences, and As The World Turns. He won a Dramalogue Award in Los Angeles for his stage work.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on June 14, 2023

Thomas Ricks - image from the Bangor Daily News Fiasco offers a very detailed look into the disaster that has been the US invasion of Iraq. For those of us who have read more than a few books on the subject there is an unavoidable repetition of information seen elsewhere, but there is sufficient ne......more

Goodreads review by KOMET on March 08, 2025

This is the definitive book on the Iraq War to date. It provides ample evidence that the G.W. Bush regime, along with the Pentagon and the CIA, made a false casus belli for war with Iraq, keenly anticipating an easy victory with Iraqis greeting American soldiers with garlands of flowers as liberator......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on April 03, 2021

Throughout my reading of Thomas E. Ricks, "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq," the song, "How Do You Sleep," by the late John Lennon kept playing in my head. And Why Do You Ask? Because despite the warnings from military experts, historians, UN Inspectors, and former military officials......more

Goodreads review by Joe on July 30, 2007

Touted by John McCain and others as the definitive Iraq War book, Fiasco gives a detailed blow by blow account of the U.S. 2003 invasion of Iraq. Writing as objectively as possible, Ricks nevertheless gives a scathing account of the mismanagement of the war by Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Bremer, Paul Wolf......more

Goodreads review by Steven on February 08, 2011

Retrospective on another important book published some years ago on Iraq. How has the work held up? Thomas Ricks' book, Fiasco, was part of an increasing body of literature, featuring more and more books based on the words and experiences of insiders, government and military officials talking after t......more

Quotes

"Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"The best account yet of the entire war." —Vanity Fair

Awards

  • Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction)
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