King of Fools on ITRZ
King of Fools reviews ITRZ:
No matter where you stand on Iraq, In the Red Zone is outside of your echo chamber. I highly recommend reading it.
Read the rest here.
King of Fools reviews ITRZ:
No matter where you stand on Iraq, In the Red Zone is outside of your echo chamber. I highly recommend reading it.
Read the rest here.
Dan Allen at "The Conjecturer" reviews ITRZ:
I wholeheartedly encourage every person who professes to care about the Iraq War to take this journey with Steven Vincent, and in doing so, open their eyes to matters of deeper importance than both Democrats and Republicans would have you believe.
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Dan Allen at "The Conjecturer" reviews ITRZ:
I wholeheartedly encourage every person who professes to care about the Iraq War to take this journey with Steven Vincent, and in doing so, open their eyes to matters of deeper importance than both Democrats and Republicans would have you believe.
Read the rest here.
Here are two unusual items: a review of ITRZ on a film blog, Movie Court, and a translation of Steven's FrontPage magazine interview into Portuguese.
We've finished adding reciprocal blogs our the ITRZ blogroll. So far the list is nearly 70 blogs long.
Here are two unusual items: a review of ITRZ on a film blog, Movie Court, and a translation of Steven's FrontPage magazine interview into Portuguese.
We've finished adding reciprocal blogs our the ITRZ blogroll. So far the list is nearly 70 blogs long.
ITRZ has received a good deal of attention in the blogosphere, and we've tried to link to all the blogs that have reviewed, blogrolled, discussed, or mentioned the book or this blog. Thanks to all who have given us a hand.
ITRZ has received a good deal of attention in the blogosphere, and we've tried to link to all the blogs that have reviewed, blogrolled, discussed, or mentioned the book or this blog. Thanks to all who have given us a hand.
Iraqi Bloggers Central calls ITRZ "the best general analysis I have read so far."
Iraqi Bloggers Central calls ITRZ "the best general analysis I have read so far."
Arthur Chrenkoff writes:
If you're not reading Steve Vincent's In the Red Zone blog, why not? Where else are you going to find consistently excellent commentary (often from a first-hand experience) about Iraq and the Middle East?
Arthur Chrenkoff writes:
If you're not reading Steve Vincent's In the Red Zone blog, why not? Where else are you going to find consistently excellent commentary (often from a first-hand experience) about Iraq and the Middle East?
Justin Bogdanovich at "The Meatriarchy" reviews ITRZ:
. . . a ballsy book. . . . he connects with and lives with Iraqi's. He isn't living in a cocoon in a fancy hotel with a bunch of reporters. He actually goes out among the people.
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Justin Bogdanovich at "The Meatriarchy" reviews ITRZ:
. . . a ballsy book. . . . he connects with and lives with Iraqi's. He isn't living in a cocoon in a fancy hotel with a bunch of reporters. He actually goes out among the people.
Read the rest here.
There are two generous reviews of ITRZ at Solomonia and Enter Stage Right.
Amy Ridenour comments on Jeff Harrell's interview.
The excerpt from ITRZ that appeared on National Review Online has been making the rounds (Little Green Footballs, Ed Driscoll, Logomachon).
ITRZ is on the current reading list at King of Fools.
The book has been mentioned on a number of blogs, and further roundups (and some reciprocal links) are forthcoming.
She is tall, glamorous, speaks Mandarin Chinese and for nearly 20 years served as a case officer for the CIA. No, she's not the model for "Alias'" Sydney Bristow--but my friend Martha Sutherland, who a few years back retired from the Agency to become a Manhattan-based dealer of contemporary Chinese art. Why do I bring her up--besides introducing you to a fascinating person? Because when the New York Sun asked her last week to nominate her favorite books of the year, one of her choices was--you guessed it--In the Red Zone. Xie, xie, Martha.
It came out a couple of weeks ago, but here's a link to the Wall Street Journal's review of ITRZ.
Jeff Harrell asks me the big questions about Iraq—you can catch it here.
The Wall Street Journal reviews ITRZ--check it out in the "Week-end" section (registration required). Also, the fifth and last installment of Chapter Four is up on National Review Online.
Jeff Harrell at The Shape of Days reviews ITRZ:
Vincent is at his best when he wears his travel-writer hat. His prose is simple yet vivid; he paints a picture of an exotic, faraway land peopled by colorful characters. Romantic? Sure, a little. But that's what makes a travelogue fun.
But In the Red Zone isn't just a travelogue. It's an introspective, thoughtful book about the politics of post-Saddam Iraq and the challenges that face us — Americans, Iraqis, all of us — during the long reconstruction ahead.
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Matthew Hoy at Hoystory.com reviews ITRZ:
Vincent's book is a must-read for anyone who's interested about the challenges facing the U.S. and the Iraqi people as they struggle to create a democracy where none has existed before. Vincent does what the the major media—network news, magazines and newspapers—have failed to do, report on what the common people of Iraq have to say and why.
I can't emphasize enough how important I think this book truly is for gaining an understanding of the diverse and competing forces pulling at Iraqi society.
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Bryan Preston at JunkYardBlog has a lengthy review of ITRZ:
Vincent risked death to bring us a work of true journalism, the best example of that craft to come from post-war Iraq yet.
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Arthur Chrenkoff, the Australian blogger who writes the bi-weekly "Good News from Iraq" column for the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com, reviews ITRZ on his blog:
[T]his is some of the best journalism to come out of Iraq since the liberation; not uncritical yet sympathetic, sober but hopeful. Vincent is like a good friend—it is because he so obviously feels for the people of Iraq and wishes them a decent future that he is not afraid to go beyond pleasantries and cliches and offer a balanced, unsparing and truthful diagnosis and advice.
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