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The Hostage's Daughter A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East

Name: The Hostage's Daughter
Author: Sulome Anderson

Auteur: Sulome Anderson

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Sulome Anderson

Engels
Paperback
9780062385505
24 augustus 2017
256 pagina's

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In this gripping blend of reportage, memoir, and analysis, a journalist and daughter of one of the world's most famous hostages, Terry Anderson, takes an intimate look at her father's captivity during the Lebanese Hostage Crisis and the ensuing political firestorm on both her family and the United States-as well as the far-reaching implications of those events on Middle Eastern politics today. In 1991, seven-year-old Sulome Anderson met her father, Terry, for the first time. While working as the Middle East bureau chief for the Associated Press covering the long and bloody civil war in Lebanon, Terry had been kidnapped in Beirut and held for more than six years by a Shiite Muslim militia associated by most with the Hezbollah movement. As the nation celebrated, the media captured a smiling Anderson family joyously reunited. But the truth was far darker. Plagued by PTSD, Terry was a moody, aloof, and distant figure to the young daughter who had long dreamed of his return-and while she smiled for the cameras all the same, she absorbed his trauma as her own. Years later, after long battles with drug abuse and mental illness, Sulome would travel to the Middle East as a reporter, seeking to understand her father, the men who had kidnapped him, and ultimately, herself. What she discovered was shocking-not just about Terry, but about the international political machinations that occurred during the years of his captivity. The Hostage's Daughter is an intimate look at the effect of the Lebanese Hostage Crisis on Anderson's family, the United States, and the Middle East today. Sulome tells moving stories from her experiences as a reporter in the region and challenges our understanding of global politics, the forces that spawn terrorism and especially Lebanon, the beautiful, devastated, and vitally important country she came to love. Powerful and eye-opening The Hostage's Daughter is essential reading for anyone interested in international relations, this violent, haunted region, and America's role in its fate.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 24 augustus 2017
Aantal pagina's: 256
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Sulome Anderson
Hoofduitgeverij: Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins US

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 135 mm
Product hoogte: 16 mm
Product lengte: 203 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 135 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 16 mm
Verpakking lengte: 203 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 210 g

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EAN: 9780062385505

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Taal: Engels
Periode: ca. 1950-1999
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