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The Reckoning

The Reckoning

The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein Glued binding - 2003

by Sandra Mackey

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Saddam Hussein is high on America's enemy list, but journalist Mackey questions if Iraq without him might hold the seeds of the next Yugoslavia.

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First Norton paperback printing. Interior pages and edges appear slightly tanned but are clean and unmarked. Firm binding.

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  • Title The Reckoning
  • Author Sandra Mackey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 427
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Co., New York
  • Publication date 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0327-HCST-BX209-20.12
  • ISBN 9780393324280 / 0393324281
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.08 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.74 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Cultural Region: Arab World
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Hussein, Saddam, Iraq - Politics and government - 1958-
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002016611
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.704
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues The Middle East: History and Literature

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From the publisher

To the dismay of many in the West, the Gulf War ended with Saddam Hussein still in control, still defiant, and more determined to use any means of striking back. How far did he go? And now that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban has been vanquished and the al Quaeda network scattered, how far should the United States go in pursuit of its war on terrorism? The central question posed in this book is whether a future Iraq without Saddam Hussein will be even more unstable and more problematical to the security of the United States. The Reckoning is an account of the forces--historical, religious, ethnic, and political--that produced Saddam's dictatorship. Forged after World War I from the Mesopotamian provinces of the collapsed Ottoman Empire, Iraq has never had a national identity or a sense of common purpose. Hussein, ruling by terror rather than by persuasion, pitted the various ethnic groups, religious interests, and tribes against one another and in so doing achieved the destruction of Iraq's middle class and civilized society. After he goes, however he goes, the country could be the site of conflict even more vicious than the Balkan wars. Now more than ever, the future of Iraq is of critical importance to America's dealings with the Muslim world, and Sandra Mackey's informed narrative gives us a new understanding of the politics and national character of the country.

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Sixty miles south of Baghdad, a nondescript road branches off the main highway at the exit for al-Hillah.

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  • New York Times, 03/30/2003, Page 20

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