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by Joel Brinkley

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A generation after the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia shows every sign of having overcome its history--the streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the skyline. But under this facade lies a country still haunted by its years of terror.

Joel Brinkley won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Cambodia on the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime that killed one quarter of the nation's population during its years in power. In 1992, the world came together to help pull the small nation out of the mire. Cambodia became a United Nations protectorate--the first and only time the UN tried something so ambitious. What did the new, democratically-elected government do with this unprecedented gift?

In 2008 and 2009, Brinkley returned to Cambodia to find out. He discovered a population in the grip of a venal government. He learned that one-third to one-half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era have P.T.S.D.--and its afflictions are being passed to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia's Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.

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  • Title Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
  • Author Joel Brinkley
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 385
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
  • Publication date 2011-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781586487874 / 1586487876
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.41 x 1.35 in (23.77 x 16.28 x 3.43 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Cambodia - Politics and government - 1979-, Cambodia - History - 1979-
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010044806
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.604

About the author

Joel Brinkley, a professor of journalism at Stanford University, is a twenty-three-year veteran of the New York Times. He has worked in more than fifty nations and writes a nationally syndicated op-ed column on foreign policy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1980 and was twice a finalist for an investigative reporting Pulitzer in the following years. This is his fifth book.

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