Megan K. Stack. (2010). Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Megan K. Stack. 2010. Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010.

Megan K. Stack. Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010.

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   • bioText: Megan K. Stack has reported on war, terrorism, and political Islam from twenty-two countries since 2001. She was most recently Moscow bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. She was awarded the 2007 Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad and was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.
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A shattering account of war and disillusionment from a young woman reporter on the front lines of the war on terror. 
A few weeks after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center, journalist Megan K. Stack was thrust into Afghanistan and Pakistan, dodging gunmen, prodding warlords for information, and witnessing the changes sweeping the Muslim world.  Every Man in This Village Is a Liar is her riveting story of what she saw in the combat zones and beyond. She relates her initial wild excitement and slow disillusionment as the cost of violence outweighs the promise of democracy; she records the raw pain of suicide bombings in Israel and Iraq; and, one by one, she marks the deaths and disappearances of those she interviews.

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   • content: "A bell-clear, powerful indictment of the debacle of recent Middle Eastern war policy.... A scathing look at the human costs of war."
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   • content: "[A] searing memoir....gripping accounts of the sorrows of war. [Stack's] vivid, atmospheric prose and keen empathy make her a superb observer of the region's horrific particulars."
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   • source: Jon Krakauer, author of Where Men Win Glory
   • content: "Every Man in This Village is a Liar is a courageous report from the front lines of the hostilities between the West and the Muslim world. Journalist Megan Stack sheds the customary pretenses of her profession to show us--with blistering eloquence and her own raw nerves laid bare--war's impact on the non-combatants who bear the brunt of its horrors. You'll be thinking about this book long after you turn the final page."
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   • source: Joe Klein, author of Politics Lost and Primary Colors
   • content: "'We were all stripped of technology,' Megan Stack writes, 'reduced to our ancient selves, to faces found and words spoken in person.' And that is the secret of this extraordinary book: Stack removes all the usual nonsense from war reporting. What you read here is the truth, gorgeously rendered in shimmering sentences, but unrelenting all the same. The honesty of her reporting, the clarity of her vision is breath-taking. It is a remarkable piece of work."
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     February 8, 2010
     An American reporter takes in one Middle East cataclysm after another in this searing memoir. Los Angeles Times
     correspondent Stack covered the war in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, then bounced around to other hot-spot postings, including Israel during the second Intifada, occupied Baghdad, and southern Lebanon during the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Stack offers gripping accounts of the sorrows of war, especially of the traumas Afghan and Lebanese civilians endured under American and Israeli bombing, but she also writes evocatively of quieter pathologies: Libya’s jovially sinister totalitarian regime, corruption under Egypt’s quasi-dictatorship, and lyric anti-Semitism at a Yemeni poetry slam. Dropping journalistic detachment in favor of a novelistic style, she enters the story as a protagonist whose travails—fending off a lecherous Afghan warlord, seething under the humiliating restrictions of Saudi Arabia’s gender apartheid system—illuminate the societies she encounters. The big-picture lessons Stack draws—“The Middle East goes crazy and we go along with it”—are none too cogent, but her vivid, atmospheric prose and keen empathy make her a superb observer of the region’s horrific particulars.

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