Research Catalog

Title

War is personal : a chronicle of the human cost of the Iraq War / by Eugene Richards ; with an afterword by Andrew J. Bacevich.

Author

Richards, Eugene.

Publication

[Long Island City, N.Y.] : Many Voices Press in association with the Nation Institute ; Austin, Tex. : Distributed by the University of Texas Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Nation Institute (U.S.)

Description

238 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

• It was 2006; the war in Iraq was in its fourth year. No weapons of mass destruction had been found. There were reports of tens of thousand of dead and injured Iraqis, of more than 2,000 dead American soldiers, of rising rates of depression and suicide among American military personnel. All the while Congress and the media debated what the conflict was costing America in image and treasure, the president in popularity. Troubled by the public's growing indifference to the tragedy of Iraq and critical of his own inaction, photographer and writer Eugene Richards set out on what would be a years-long journey to document the lives of Americans who'd been profoundly affected by the war.
• Carlos Arredondo is a broken man, a man who can't help but blame himself for the death of his Marine son; Tomas Young, a paralyzed veteran full of rage; Kimberly Rivera, an aggrieved soldier who, instead of returning to Iraq, makes the fateful decision to defect to Canada: Michael Harmon, a combat veteran who has come home, but to a place he feels he no longer belongs; Nelida Bagley, a fiercely protective mother still clinging to the belief that her brain-injured son can be healed, isn't gone from her forever.
• War is Personal is a collection of fifteen complex and deeply intimate real-life stories. Its a study of lives in upheaval, a chronicle of greatly differing experiences and perceptions of what it means to go to war, to fight, to wait, to mourn, to remember, to live on when those that you love are gone. --Book Jacket.

Alternative Title

Chronicle of the human cost of the Iraq War

Subjects

• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Photography > Pictorial works
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Casualties > Biography > Pictorial works
• Documentary photography
• War photography

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Pictorial works.

Contents

Tomas Young, Kansas City, Missouri -- Carlos Arredondo, Roslindale, Massachusetts -- Mona Parsons, Mount Vernon, Ohio -- Michael Harmon, Brooklyn, New York -- Army Sgt. Princess C. Samuels, Landover, Maryland -- Clinton Keels, Laurens, South Carolina -- Gail Ulerie, Richmond Heights, Ohio -- Clarissa Russell, Ramsey, Minnesota -- Tami Silicio, Everett, Washington -- Dustin Hill, Mineral, Illinois -- Janice Morgain, Butler, Pennsylvania -- Daniel Casara, University Park, Illinois -- Kimberly Rivera, Toronto, Ontario, Canada -- Nelida Bagley, West Roxbury, Massachusetts -- Paula Zwillinger, Lagrangeville, New York -- Afterword.

ISBN

• 9780292704411
• 0292704410

LCCN

2010283800

OCLC

• ocn630467062
• 630467062
• SCSB-1561117

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library