From the creators of The Wire comes
the New Face of American WarNew HBO Miniseries
Generation Kill "The Wire" creators David Simon and Ed Burns, the seven- part miniseries portrays the true story of the young Marines' experience at the spear of the American invasion.
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An illuminating and highly entertaining film that pulls back the veil on the headlines to explore the human drama surrounding the most controversial presidential election in U.S. history.
Check out HBO's promo site, buy the book and tell all your friends!
Based on Evan Wright's acclaimed 2004 non-fiction book of the same name, Generation Kill is a seven-part miniseries that focuses on the first 40 days of the Iraq war, a.k.a. "Operation Iraqi Freedom," through the eyes and actions of a group of elite U.S. First Recon Marines.
While offering vivid and unvarnished portraits of the actual Marines who rode alongside Wright (an embedded journalist working for Rolling Stone magazine) for two months starting in March 2003, Generation Kill provides a gritty, uncompromising account of the collective forces that guided these highly-trained Marines across a barren landscape, and against an unknowable enemy, in a military initiative designed to liberate the Iraqi populace from Saddam Hussein.
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Evan is a spectacular observer and writer. I've read some of his RS articles and have been hawking GK all over the place since it came out. I'm so glad to see this happening and can't wait to see the series! It'll make people think more clearly about the war this political season.
Evan is also a former Seedling*
Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids
(Riverhead Books, 2006)
BOOK FORUM
Thursday, April 20, 2006
12:00 PM (Luncheon to Follow)
Featuring the author Maia Szalavitz, Senior Fellow, Stats.org; and with comments by Evan Wright Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone Author, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War.
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As the War on Drugs continues to fill America's prisons with nonviolent offenders, many cities and states are looking at mandatory treatment as an alternative to incarceration. Although treatment is generally preferable to prison, not all methods of treating drug addiction are the same. Some methods, particularly the "tough love" programs aimed at teens and adolescents, have documented records of mental abuse, physical abuse, and even death.
In her new book, Help at Any Cost, Maia Szalavitz takes a critical look at the history, controversy, and effectiveness of "tough love" rehabilitation programs. Blending personal stories and anecdotes with the detached narrative of a reporter, Szalavitz paints a troubling picture of the increasingly popular "get tough" approach to drug abuse.
Damn, am I pissed! I blew the one chance I had to have a beer w. Evan in St. Pete last year. Now he's a big old cable tv super-star. Next thing ya know, he'll begetting awards and cutting up w/ Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert and such like folk and won't ever have time again for us little folk. And I can't even say I knew him when. Damn it! Oh well, it's still going to be a good series and maybe if we bow the the alter of celebrity ego and hawk the shit out of his work he'll be so flattered and bedazzled by the groupie love oozing from Fornits that he'll write something brilliant about the Program.
So please, watch the series,
Generation Kill
, and tell ppl what you think about it.
* I don't know if Seedling is precisely one of Evan's preferred terms... bearing in mind thathe may one day write more about the Program and that he may well mention me in some light or other, I should apologize right now.
