On the 10th anniversary of the attack in Benghazi, a startling reconsideration of one of the defining controversies of our era, from a noted Libya expert and eyewitness to the attack Ten years after an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, cries of Benghazi! still echo across America.
With this ambitious, engaging narrative, Chorin makes clear why Benghazi still matters so much ten years later--and why we can\'t afford to continue overlooking and misunderstanding it..
Chorin draws on his own bone-chilling experience during the Benghazi attack, his expertise as a former diplomat and scholar of Libyan history, and new interviews with Libyan insiders, eyewitnesses, and key players like Hillary Clinton and Ben Rhodes.
Here, Benghazi is not a story contained in 13 hours, but a decades-long History beginning with the rise of Muammar Gaddafi, stretching through 9/11, the War on Terror, and the Arab Spring, and reaching into the present day, as the impact of the attack and ensuing controversy remain visible in America and around the world.
In this thrilling retelling, Ethan Chorin reveals Benghazi as a watershed moment in American history, one That helped create the World America lives in today: polarized, fearful, and dangerously unstable.
But instead of a landmark event to be taken seriously, it has become a punchline, an empty word, or a code for controversy and political theatre.
On the 10th anniversary of the attack in Benghazi, a startling reconsideration of one of the defining controversies of our era, from a noted Libya expert and eyewitness to the attack Ten years after an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, cries of Benghazi! still echo across America
