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Thornton, Dr. Yvonne S.; Coudert, Jo
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Fiction
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2010
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Dafina/Kensington
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en-jm
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The Hostage's Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East
โ Scribed by Anderson, Sulome
- Book ID
- 108870475
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 605 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062385499
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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...
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