Jeremy Scahill Speaking - Monday, June 9th, 7:00 PM at Immanuel Presbyterian Church - He is the Award-Winning Author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Nation Books is Pleased to Announce Award-Winning Author
On National Tour to Launch the Fully Updated Edition of His Bestseller
MONDAY, JUNE 9TH - 7:00 PM
A talk, discussion, and booksigning for the release of the fully updated paperback edition.
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
Parking: Available across the street at the United Teachers Los Angeles Union Hall
Public Transit: Vermont & Wilshire Red Line Stop
Cosponsored by Haymarket Books
For additional event information, contact: brucecooley@yahoo.com or 213-810-8438
About the Book
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad’s Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad’s Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide.
This is the explosive story of a company that rose a decade ago from Moyock, North Carolina, to become one of the most powerful players in the "War on Terror." In his gripping bestseller, award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine.
Jeremy Scahill is a Polk Award-winning investigative journalist. He is a frequent contributor to The Nation magazine and a correspondent for the national radio and television show Democracy Now!.
Scahill has reported extensively from Iraq, the former Yugoslavia and Nigeria. He is currently a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army is his first book.
Links
http://www.nationbooks.org/
http://www.haymarketbooks.org
