Nicholas Schmidle: "To Live or to Perish Forever" (Henry Holt)

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Nicholas Schmidle: "To Live or to Perish Forever" (Henry Holt)

A young American goes to Pakistan to launch his journalism career. Twenty-two months later he's expelled from the country. A first-person account of the power and appeal of the Taliban, the ideological cross-currents in Pakistan, and...

A young American goes to Pakistan to launch his journalism career. Twenty-two months later he's expelled from the country. A first-person account of the power and appeal of the Taliban, the ideological cross-currents in Pakistan, and life in one of the world's most dangerous places.

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Nicholas Schmidle

journalist; fellow at the New America Foundation

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