My Year in Iraq, L.  Paul Bremer
My Year in Iraq, L.  Paul Bremer
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My Year in Iraq
The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope

Author: L. Paul Bremer, Malcolm McConnell

Narrator: Boyd Gaines

Abridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/09/2006


Synopsis


"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.

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 and on four continents. In the 1980s, he was Ambassador to the Netherlands and Ambassador at Large for Counter Terrorism. After leaving government, he was Managing Director of Kissinger Associates. In December 2004, George W. Bush awarded Bremer the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his service in Iraq.

About Malcolm McConnell

Malcolm McConnell is the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Soldier with Tommy Franks and My Year in Iraq with L. Paul Bremer III.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph on July 23, 2023

Felt somewhat conflicted about this one: it is self-propagandizing in a number of ways, highly selective, and a bit treacly. But on the other hand, it's a very valuable resource for historians for understanding what happened in Iraq during the first year of the US presence there. Moreover, at times......more

Goodreads review by Khaled on December 18, 2017

Bremer was fully aware of the two salient facts, the first being that this is the largest reconstruction since Japan and Germany WWII and the second being that the disbanding of the Iraqi is a bad decision forced on by Rumsfeld. Bremer did convince me of his best intentions, and he did shed light on......more

Goodreads review by Sara on March 12, 2020

Read this years ago and recall enjoying it.......more