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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winni...
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<b>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents. With a new Afterword</b><br><br>Drawing on unique high-level access to CIA and Jordanian sources, Warrick weaves gripping, moment-by-moment operational details with the perspectives of diplomats and spies, generals and heads of state, many of whom foresaw a menace worse than al Qaeda and tried desperately to stop it. <i>Black Flags</i> is a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of today’s most dangerous extremist threat.
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