Road Work Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts

by Bowden, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780871138767
• ISBN10: 087113876X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-08
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

Summary

Over two decades, Mark Bowden, author of the #1 New York Times best seller Black Hawk Down and the critically acclaimed Killing Pablo, has solidified his reputation as a "master of narrative journalism" (The New York Times Book Review). An incisive reporter and gripping, evocative writer, Bowden is capable of putting us in the heat of a story in a way few others can. Now Road Work offers the best of Bowden's award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a reporter for twenty-four years, to his highly talked-about pieces in The Atlantic on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Author Biography

Mark Bowden is a national correspondent for The Atlantic.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Tales of the Tyrant	p. 8
The Kabul-Ki Dance	p. 46
The Dark Art of Interrogation	p. 71
Pompadour with a Monkey Wrench	p. 111
Gore's Stiff Competition	p. 140
The Game of a Lifetime	p. 154
The Unkindest Cut	p. 170
Schmidt's Misfortune	p. 186
The Great Potato Pick-Off Play	p. 209
A Beautiful Mind	p. 220
Rhino	p. 233
The Urban Gorilla	p. 256
Breeding the Better Cow	p. 275
Battling "The Baddies" in Fantasyland	p. 285
Fight to the Finish	p. 302
Fight with Fame (Norman Mailer)	p. 323
The Fight Rocky Lost	p. 336
Mayberry Vice	p. 349
Cops on the Take	p. 369
Acknowledgments	p. 469
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