Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions by John Agresto

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This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Sunday, March 18, 2007)

Mugged by Reality:
The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions

by John Agresto

Encounter Books
300 pages, March 2007
Hardcover, 25.95
ISBN: 1594031878

A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.

John Agresto spent a little over nine months in Iraq. His job, was to help Iraq rebuild its once highly regarded education system. As he left Iraq, Agresto was asked by the Pentagon to write a few paragraphs for the future about this formative and transitional time; from those paragraphs Mugged by Reality was born.

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