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An Afghanistan Picture Show, Or, How I Saved the World

An Afghanistan Picture Show, Or, How I Saved the World

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An Afghanistan Picture Show, Or, How I Saved the World

by Vollmann, William T

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0233980229
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9780233980225
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992. First Edition, First Printing . Grey Boards. Near Fine Book/Fine Dustjacket. Drawings By The Author, Maps. Near Fine Book With Slight Rubbing Along Bottom Edge Of Boards, In A Fine Dj, Not Price-Clipped. Signed By Author On Title Page. Vollman's Account Of His Travels In Afghanistan In 1982. Illuminating And Too Deep For Most. Immersion In A Conflict Where America Secretly Armed Muslim Fundamentalists To Successfully Overthrow Their Own Government, Setting The Stage For America's "Endless War Against Muslim Fundamentalists There, And Endlessly Frustrated By The Systemic Brutality, Ignorance, Prejudice And Opium-Production Of The Rule Of The Very People America Supported, Is Best Explained By America's Familial Support Of The Lowest Class Of American Politicians Without Further Responsibility Or Rebuke No Matter What Genocidal And Ecocidal Idiocies They Engage In. In Other Words, Afghanis Are Very Much Like Us, In Fact, Frighteningly So.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
An Afghanistan Picture Show, Or, How I Saved the World
Author
Vollmann, William T
Illustrator
Drawings By The Author, Maps
Format/Binding
Grey Boards
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine Book
Jacket Condition
Fine Dustjacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0233980229
ISBN 13
9780233980225
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1992
Keywords
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Bookseller catalogs
Military History; Literature: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century;
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