The Taliban shuffle : strange days in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Kim Barker
- Author:
- Barker, Kim, 1970-
- Published:
- New York : Doubleday, [2011]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2011
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 302 pages : map ; 22 cm
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Kabul high. Welcome to the terrordome ; Montana ; American idiot ; There goes my gun ; One way or another ; March of the pigs ; Monkey gone to heaven ; Message in a bottle ; Let's get radical ; Hell yes ; My new house ; Barely legal -- pt. 2. Whack-a-stan. Under pressure ; Highway to hell ; God save the queen ; Stray cat strut ; Lucky star ; Suspicious minds ; Rebel, rebel ; Why can't we be friends? ; London calling ; Deadbeat club ; Eye of the tiger ; Bad liver and a broken heart ; Young Americans ; When the man comes around ; Hotel California.
- Summary:
- A wisecracking foreign correspondent recounts her experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan while sharing cautionary observations about the region in its first post-Taliban years and the responsibilities of the U.S. and NATO.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780385533317
0385533314 (hbk.)
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