Beirut Outtakes: A TV Correspondent's Portrait of America's Encounter With Terror
by Pintak, Larry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 066919512X
- ISBN 13
- 9780669195125
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About This Item
New Britian, Connecticut, U.S.A: Lexington Books/D.C.Health and Co, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Archival protective cover. Clean and unmarked, with a bump and nick on the bottom edge of the front board and a nick on the bottom edge of the rear board. No other marks; tight and solid. Internals are also clean and unmarked, no creasing. Jacket with a touch of edgewear. Includes Maps of Beirut and Lebanon. Pintak's account, after five years in the Middle East beginning the summer of 1980, of Lebanon's bloodshed, turmoil, and Byzantine politics and also the story of America's mistakes that sowed seeds of terrorism that now plagues the US. He traces the escalating religious and political hostilities, and American naivete, that gradually transformed U.S.good intentions into disaster. 347 pages including chapter notes, index, short author biographies. 6.5 x 9.25 inches. 1988, Lexington Books/D.C.Health and Co., New Britian, Connecticut, U.S.A.
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- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015043
- Title
- Beirut Outtakes: A TV Correspondent's Portrait of America's Encounter With Terror
- Author
- Pintak, Larry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 066919512X
- ISBN 13
- 9780669195125
- Publisher
- Lexington Books/D.C.Health and Co
- Place of Publication
- New Britian, Connecticut, U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- LEBANON, HISTORY-ISRAELI INTERVENTION, 1982-1984; HISTORY, 1975-; MIDDLE EAST-FOREIGN RELATIONS; TERRORISM-MIDDLE EAST; JIHAD;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. Israel;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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