Автор: Wright, Evan
Название: Generation kill
ISBN: 0552151890 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552151894
Издательство: Transworld Publishers
Цена: 503 р.
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Описание: Evan Wright was the only reporter with First Recon, which operated well ahead of most other forces, usually behind enemy lines. They were among the first marines sent into the fight and one of the last units still engaged on the outskirts of Iraq, even after the city centre fell.

Автор: Evan Wright
Название: Hella Nation
ISBN: 0552160393 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780552160391
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Over the course of his career as an award-winning journalist, Evan Wright has written about men and women with completely opposing attitudes towards dominant culture. This work charts Wright`s personal journey, from his portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley to his portrait of a Hollywood uber-agent turned war documentarian.

Автор: Evan Wright
Название: Hella Nation
ISBN: 0593064550 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593064559
Издательство: Transworld Publishers
Цена: 935 р.
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Описание: Charts the author's personal journey, from his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley to his raw portrait of a Hollywood uber-agent turned war documentarian and hero of America's far right. This book presents an observed tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight.

Автор: Roberts Jon, Wright Evan
Название: American Desperado
ISBN: 0307704645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307704641
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2738 р.
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Описание: In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his "New York Times "bestselling book "Generation Kill "and co-writer of the Emmy-winning HBO series it spawned," " began a series of conversations with super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the fabulously successful documentary "Cocaine Cowboys. "Those conversations would last three years, during which time Wright came to realize that Roberts was much more than the de-facto "transportation chief" of the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic. As Wright's tape recorder whirred and Roberts unburdened himself of "hundreds "of jaw-dropping tales, it became clear that perhaps no one in history had broken so many laws with such willful abandon.
Roberts, in fact, seemed to be a prodigy of criminality - but one with a remarkable self-awareness and a fierce desire to protect his son from following the same path.
"American Desperado "is Roberts' no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to become -- at age 22 -- one of the city's leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few short years he would rise to become the Medellin Cartel's most effective smuggler.
But that's just "half "the tale.
The roster of Roberts' friends and acquaintances reads like a Who's Who of the latter half of the 20th century and includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix, Richard Pryor, and O.J. Simpson to Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, and Manuel Noriega.
Nothing if not colorful, Roberts surrounded himself with beautiful women, drove his souped-up street car at a top speed of 180 miles per hour, shared his bed with a 200-pound cougar, and employed a 6"6" professional wrestler called "The Thing" as his bodyguard. Ultimately, Roberts became so powerful that he attracted the attention of the Republican Party's leadership, was wooed by them, and even was co-opted by the CIA for which he carried out its secret agenda.
Scrupulously documented and relentlessly propulsive, this collaboration between a bloodhound journalist and one of the most audacious criminals ever is like no other crime book you've ever read. Jon Roberts may be the only criminal who changed the course of American history.

"From the Hardcover edition."

Автор: Wright, Evan
Название: Generation Kill
ISBN: 042520040X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425200407
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание:

Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO(R) original mini-series.
Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears--soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the "First Suicide Battalion" would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.
Hailed as "one of the best books to come out of the Iraq war"(Financial Times), Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War.

Автор: Wright Evan
Название: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
ISBN: 1400159741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400159741
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1825 р.
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Автор: Roberts, Jon; Wright, Evan
Название: American Desperado
ISBN: 0091945224 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780091945220
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: He returned to New York at age 20 to become one of the city`s top nightclub promoters, then journeyed to Miami where he became the de facto transportation chief of the Medellin Cartel, and along with a tech-wizard partner, created some of the most sophisticated smuggling technologies ever.

Автор: Wright Evan
Название: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
ISBN: 1400139740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400139743
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4867 р.
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Описание: They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears--soldiers raised on hip-hop, Internet porn, Marilyn Manson, video games, and "The Real World," a band of born-again Christians, dopers, Buddhists, and New Agers who gleaned their precepts from kung fu movies and Oprah Winfrey. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary, and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional, and moral horrors ahead, the ""First Suicide Battalion"" would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.
"Generation Kill" is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality, and camaraderie of a new American war.

Автор: Wright Evan
Название: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
ISBN: 1400109744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400109746
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2433 р.
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Описание: They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears--soldiers raised on hip-hop, Internet porn, Marilyn Manson, video games, and "The Real World," a band of born-again Christians, dopers, Buddhists, and New Agers who gleaned their precepts from kung fu movies and Oprah Winfrey. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary, and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional, and moral horrors ahead, the ""First Suicide Battalion"" would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.
"Generation Kill" is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality, and camaraderie of a new American war.

Автор: Wright, Evan
Название: Hella Nation
ISBN: 0425232379 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425232378
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 974 р.
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Описание: The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Generation Kill" immerses himself in even more cultures on the edge.
Evan Wright's affinity for outsiders has inspired this deeply personal journey through what he calls "the lost tribes of America." A collection of previously published pieces, "Hella Nation" delivers provocative accounts of sex workers in Porn Valley, a Hollywood ber-agent-turned-war documentarian and hero of America's far right, runaway teens earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen, radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of corporate America, and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East

Автор: Wright, Evan
Название: Generation Kill (TV Tie-in)
ISBN: 0425224740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425224748
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Wright Evan
Название: Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut`s War Against the GAP, and Other Adventures with t
ISBN: 140014230X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400142309
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4259 р.
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Описание: From his work as a reporter at Hustler magazine to his National Magazine Award-winning writing for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, Evan Wright has always had an affinity for outsiders-what he calls "the lost tribes of America." The previously published pieces in this collection chart a deeply personal journey, beginning with his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley, through his raw portrait of a Hollywood uberagent-turned-war documentarian and hero of America's far right. Along the way, Wright encounters runaway teens earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen; radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of corporate America; and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East. His subjects are people for whom the American dream is either just out of grasp or something they've chosen to reject altogether. Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic, Hella Nation is Evan Wright's meticulously observed tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight amid the nation's malls and gated communities. This collection also includes an all-new, autobiographical introductory essay by the author.

Автор: Roberts Jon, Wright Evan
Название: American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset
ISBN: 0307450430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307450432
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 913 р.
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Описание: In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his "New York Times "bestselling book "Generation Kill "and co-writer of the Emmy-winning HBO series it spawned," " began a series of conversations with super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the fabulously successful documentary "Cocaine Cowboys. "Those conversations would last three years, during which time Wright came to realize that Roberts was much more than the de-facto transportation chief of the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic. As Wright s tape recorder whirred and Roberts unburdened himself of "hundreds "of jaw-dropping tales, it became clear that perhaps no one in history had broken so many laws with such willful abandon.
Roberts, in fact, seemed to be a prodigy of criminality but one with a remarkable self-awareness and a fierce desire to protect his son from following the same path.
"American Desperado "is Roberts no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to become -- at age 22 -- one of the city s leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few short years he would rise to become the Medellin Cartel s most effective smuggler.
But that s just "half "the tale.
The roster of Roberts friends and acquaintances reads like a Who s Who of the latter half of the 20th century and includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix, Richard Pryor, and O.J. Simpson to Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, and Manuel Noriega.
Nothing if not colorful, Roberts surrounded himself with beautiful women, drove his souped-up street car at a top speed of 180 miles per hour, shared his bed with a 200-pound cougar, and employed a 6 6 professional wrestler called The Thing as his bodyguard. Ultimately, Roberts became so powerful that he attracted the attention of the Republican Party s leadership, was wooed by them, and even was co-opted by the CIA for which he carried out its secret agenda.
Scrupulously documented and relentlessly propulsive, this collaboration between a bloodhound journalist and one of the most audacious criminals ever is like no other crime book you ve ever read. Jon Roberts may be the only criminal who changed the course of American history.

"From the Hardcover edition.""