My book, So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits --and the President -- Failed on Iraq, has just been published by Union Square Press and you can order it online or find it in stores for a little more than $10. Joe Galloway wrote the foreword and Bruce Springsteen wrote the preface. To order, see the links to Amazon and B&N under the book cover over on the left rail at this blog. It's the first five-year history of the war. Reviews are just arriving, with Kirkus saying that it is "worthy of shelving alongside the best of the Iraq books to date." I've just appeared on the Jim Lehrer's PBS "NewsHour." Major excerpts or articles have appeared at Salon, MotherJones and many other places, I've done "book salons" at Talking Points Memo and FireDogLake, with a Vanity Fair review coming this week. NPR's "On the Media" feature on the book aired this weekend (and at www.onthemedia.org), and I did Democracy Now radio/TV on March 24. Here are other early comments on the book:
"Greg Mitchell has given us a razor-sharp critique of how the media and the government connived in one of the great blunders of American foreign policy. Every aspiring journalist, every veteran, every pundit—and every citizen who cares about the difference between illusion and reality, propaganda and the truth, and looks to the press to help keep them separate—should read this book. Twice."
— Bill Moyers
“The profound failure of the American press with regard to the Iraq War may very well be the most significant political story of this generation. Greg Mitchell has established himself as one of our country's most perceptive media critics, and here he provides invaluable insight into how massive journalistic failures enabled the greatest strategic disaster in the nation's history.”
— Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com writer and author of A Tragic Legacy and How Would a Patriot Act?
"With the tragic war in Iraq dragging on, and the drumbeat for new conflicts growing louder, this is more than a five-year history of the biggest foreign policy debacle of our times—it's a cautionary tale that is as relevant as this morning's headlines. Read it and weep; read it and get enraged; read it and make sure it doesn't happen again."
— Arianna Huffington
"Anyone who cares about the integrity of the American media should read this book. Greg Mitchell asks tough questions about the Iraq war that should have been asked long ago, in a poignant, patriotic, and thoughtful dissection of our war in Iraq. Mitchell names names and places blame on those who’ve blundered. Examining the most complex issue of our time, he connects the dots like no one else has."
— Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director, Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America and author of Chasing Ghosts
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