A propos de l'auteur
Evan Wright is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Generation Kill, recently an HBO miniseries, which he co-wrote. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he has also written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among numerous other publications.
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Œuvres de Evan Wright
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War (2004) 1,583 exemplaires
Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other… (2009) 145 exemplaires
American Desperado : Une vie dans la mafia, le trafic de cocaïne et les services secrets (2011) — Auteur — 133 exemplaires
How to Get Away with Murder in America: Drug Lords, Dirty Pols, Obsessed Cops, and the Quiet Man Who Became the… (2012) 35 exemplaires
Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's WarAgainst the GAP, and Other… 4 exemplaires
Il re. La vera storia dietro Scarface 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Boots on the Ground: Stories of American Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan (2004) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Wright, Evan
- Date de naissance
- 1966
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- Vassar College
- Professions
- journalist
writer
television writer - Agent
- Keppler Speakers (speaking tours)
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Critiques
Generation kill : Devil Dogs, Iceman och captain… par Evan Wright
Generation Kill är en bok från 2004 skriven av Rolling Stone-journalisten Evan Wright som berättar om sin erfarenhet som inbäddad reporter med 1:a spaningsbataljonen i United States Marine Corps, under 2003 års invasion av Irak.
Great on-the-ground reporting of the Iraq War's first week. Wright occasionally tries too hard to get into the heads of the Recon Marines, but for the most part he provides an even keeled account that demonstrates how the war's early successes laid the groundwork for the quagmire that followed.
Generation Kill was my favorite movie/tv series (miniseries, somewhere in between) about the Iraq War (specifically the invasion phase). The journalist who rode with the Recon Marines during a high-speed, light force assault deep into Iraq was himself quite brave, and did an excellent job both winning the trust of the Marines and accurately documenting what it was like for them. It was particularly interesting that he was able to clearly describe the various personalities within the unit and how they interacted in a stressful situation, rather than just focusing on the facts and figures of the invasion.
I'd probably slightly prefer the miniseries to the book, but both are very good.… (plus d'informations)
I'd probably slightly prefer the miniseries to the book, but both are very good.… (plus d'informations)
A collection of interviews/vignettes about weird people in the US. Some were really exceptionally interesting, some were so boring that I skipped, some were deeply disturbing. Probably would be better as a set of long-form magazine articles than a book, but as long as you're comfortable skipping the sections which weren't worth reading (and it's obvious after a page or two), a decent collection.
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- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 1,916
- Popularité
- #13,433
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 49
- ISBN
- 50
- Langues
- 5
- Favoris
- 1
