War Is Personal - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0292704410 ISBN 13: 9780292704411

Casa editrice: Many Voices Pr, 2010

Riassunto

By early 2006, the war in Iraq was entering its fourth year. No weapons of mass destruction had been found. Tens of thousands of Iraqis were reported injured and dead, more than two thousand American soldiers had been killed, and rates of depression and suicide were rising among American military personnel. Yet all the while, Congress and the media debated what the conflict was costing America in image and treasure, and costing the president in popularity. Troubled by the public's growing indifference to the ongoing horrors in Iraq and critical of his own inaction, acclaimed photographer Eugene Richards began documenting the lives of Americans who had been profoundly affected by the Iraq war. Bold and epic in scope, War Is Personal is a compilation of fifteen real-life stories that speak of what it means to go to war, to sacrifice, to wait, to hope, to mourn, to remember, to live on when those you love are gone. With heartbreaking photographs and texts, Richards records the funeral of twenty-two-year-old Army sergeant Princess Samuels and profiles veterans such as Tomas Young, who was shot in the spine and paralyzed four days into his tour in Iraq. Richards documents parents such as Carlos Arredondo, who grew so distraught upon hearing of his son's death in combat that he attacked and destroyed a Marine Corps van, severely injuring himself, and Nelida Bagley, whose massively brain-injured son requires nearly round-the-clock care. Uncompromising and sure to be controversial, War Is Personal is a study of lives in upheaval and a chronicle of greatly differing attitudes, experiences, and understandings of what it means for Americans to go to war.

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Eugene Richards was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. A former social worker and reporter, he published his first book, For Comforts or Surprises: The Arkamsan Delta in 1973. Since then he has worked as a freelance editorial photographer for such publications as Life, National Geographic, Newsureek, and the New York Times Magazine. Richards's subsequent books include Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue (1994), a study of the impact of hardcore drugs on American society; Stepping Through the Asbes (2002), an elegy to those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001; The Fat Baby (2004), a collection of fifteen photographic essays produced both on and off assignment; A Procession of Them (2008), which chronicles the plight of the world's mentally disabled, and The Blue Room (2008), a study of the deserted and abandoned houses of rural America.

Among numerous honors, Richards has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kraszna-Kraus Book Award, the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, a Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, a National Geographic Grant in Photography, and the Robert E. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award for coverage of the disadvantaged.
Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor of history and international relations at Boston University. Formerly a professional soldier, he is the author of several books on U.S. military and national security policy, including The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005), which received the inaugural Lannan Literary Award for An Especially Notable Book. Subsequent publications include The Limits of Power. The End of American Exceptionalism (2008) and Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (2010).

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• Editore: Many Voices Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0292704410
• ISBN 13: 9780292704411
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 239