{"product_id":"i-lost-my-love-in-baghdad-a-modern-war-story-9781416560982","title":"I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hastings, Michael. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781416560982.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “wrenching” (Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show) first book by acclaimed journalist Michael Hastings (1980-2013), whose unflinching Rolling Stone article “Runaway General” ended the military career of General Stanley A. McChrystal.\n\nAt age twenty-five, Michael Hastings arrived in Baghdad to cover the war in Iraq for Newsweek. He had at his disposal a little Hemingway romanticism and all the apparatus of a twenty-first-century reporter—cell phones, high-speed Internet access, digital video cameras, fixers, drivers, guards, translators. In startling detail, he describes the chaos, the violence, the never-ending threats of bomb and mortar attacks, the front lines that can be a half-mile from the Green Zone, that can be anywhere. This is a new kind of war: private security companies follow their own rules or lack thereof; soldiers in combat get instant messages from their girlfriends and families; members of the Louisiana National Guard watch Katrina’s decimation of their city on a TV in the barracks.\n\nBack in New York, Hastings had fallen in love with Andi Parhamovich, a young idealist who worked for Air America. A year into their courtship, Andi followed Michael to Iraq, taking a job with the National Democratic Institute. Their war-zone romance is another window into life in Baghdad. They call each other pet names; they make plans for the future; they fight, usually because each is fearful for the other’s safety; and they try to figure out how to get together, when it means putting bodyguards and drivers in jeopardy. Then Andi goes on a dangerous mission for her new employer—a meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters that ends in catastrophe.\n\nI Lost My Love in Baghdad is a searing, unflinching, and revelatory book by “a great reporter,” who will be remembered for being “ambitious, skeptical of power and conventional wisdom, and incredibly brave” (Ben Smith, Buzzfeed) and who “leaves behind a remarkable legacy” (Rolling Stone).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SCRIBNER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44770165293109,"sku":"ByrdShop_141656098X","price":29.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_141656098X_8a61d9f2-13ca-4b63-8f55-5e8e194617d3.jpg?v=1784391689","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/i-lost-my-love-in-baghdad-a-modern-war-story-9781416560982","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}