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02246aim a2200421 a 4500 001 1E3D71F22B1311E2A9A865B06AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20210311022902 007 sd fsngnnmmneu 008 080730s2006 nyunnnn m n eng d 010 $a 2008641512 020 $a 9780743552486 020 $a 0743552482 035 $a (OCoLC)62972946 040 $d SILO 082 04 $a 956.704431 $2 22 100 1 $a Bremer, L. Paul 245 1 $a My year in Iraq $h [sound recording] : $b the struggle to build a future of hope / $c L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell 260 $a New York : $b Simon & Schuster Audio, $c p2006 300 $a 6 sound discs (ca. 6.5 hrs.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in 306 $a 063000 500 $a Abridged 500 $a Compact discs 511 0 $a Read by Boyd Gaines, with an introduction read by the author 520 $a This memoir of fourteen months as America's proconsul in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. Bremer describes negotiations with emerging Iraqi leaders as they struggle to forge the democratic institutions vital to Iraq's future; his resistance to the cut-and-run policy that would have quickly delivered governance of Iraq to a handful of unrepresentative anti-Saddam exiles; heated sessions among members of America's National Security Council; his frustration with intelligence operations that concentrated on the search for weapons of mass destruction while the insurgency gathered strength; the selfless and courageous work of thousands of American servicemen and -women and civilians; and working with Iraq's traumatized and divided population to find a path to a responsible government 538 $a Compact discs 650 0 $a Postwar reconstruction $z Iraq 650 0 $a Insurgency $z Iraq 650 0 $a Audiobooks 651 0 $a Iraq $x History $y 2003- 651 0 $a Middle East $x Politics and government $y 21st century 700 1 $a McConnell, Malcolm 700 1 $a Gaines, Boyd. $4 nrt 710 2 $a Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm) 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l FRPA224 $d 20191112013217.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1E3D71F22B1311E2A9A865B06AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search