- Politics and government, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, IS (Organization)
"In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents.
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- Author
- Joby Warrick
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Random House Audio, Zhong xin chu ban she
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Chinese, Italian, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781101973431
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- Politics and government
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism
- Islamic fundamentalism
- IS (Organization)
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence
- Terrorism
- Islam
- Iraq, history
- Syria, history
- Terrorism, religious aspects
- Middle east, politics and government
- Islamischer Staat im Irak und in Syrien
Joby Warrick is a best-selling author and a national security correspondent for The Washington Post. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he served for 24 years with the Post’s national and investigative staffs, reporting from Washington and scores of cities around the world. He is the author of two previous two nonfiction books, including “The Triple Agent” (Doubleday, 2011), a New York Times best-seller about a CIA operation in Afghanistan; as well as “Black Flags” (Doubleday, 2015), a narrative account of the personalities and events that gave rise to the Islamic State. “Black Flags” was listed as one of the best books of 2015 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chr
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