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A kingdom of their own : the family Karzai and the Afghan disaster / Joshua Partlow.

by Partlow, Joshua

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Alfred A. Knopf, c2016.

Karzai, Hamid, 1957-

Afghan War, 2001-2021

Afghanistan -- Foreign relations. -- United States

United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan.

9780307962645 (hc)

0307962644 (hc)

Alternate title:

Family Karzai and the Afghan disaster

422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-402) and index.

A rescue from demons -- Any path will lead you there -- So much in love -- Jump-starting a country -- Because we see more, we do more -- Government in a box -- An ordinary Afghan -- Smashing the china shop -- Close cousins -- Who's running this place? -- Where everyone gets accused -- Couldn't be more helpful -- A movie story -- Making the country great again -- The five fingers -- I hate politics -- Everybody in a corner -- Not religion but history -- The primary purpose of its existence -- Evil in heaven -- The zero option.

"The key to understanding the calamitous Afghan war is the complex, ultimately failed relationship between the powerful, duplicitous Karzai family and the U.S.--brilliantly portrayed here in its entirety for the first time by the former Washington Post Kabul bureau chief"--From publisher.

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