ISBN10: 1594632642, ISBN13: 9781594632648, [publisher: RIVERHEAD] Hardcover Neu Neuware, Importqualität, auf Lager - Look out for Masha Gessen's new book, The Future is Histor y, coming October 2017 An important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and ultimately charged on thirty federal counts. Yet long after the bombings and the terror they sowed, after all the testimony and debate, what we still haven't learned is why. Why did the American Dream go so wrong for two immigrants How did such a nightmare come to pass Acclaimed Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen is uniquely endowed with the background, access, and talents to tell the full story. An immigrant herself, who came to the Boston area with her family as a teenager, she returned to the former Soviet Union in her early twenties and covered firsthand the transformations that were wracking her homeland and its neighboring regions. It is there that the history of the Tsarnaev brothers truly begins, as descendants of ethnic Chechens deported to Central Asia in the Stalin era. Gessen follows the family in their futile attempts to make a life for themselves in one war-torn locale after ...
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ISBN10: 1594632642, ISBN13: 9781594632648, [publisher: Riverhead Books] Hardcover
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]

Riverhead Books, Date: 2015. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed "For Boris'" by the author on the title page. 1st edition, 2nd printing. Dust jacket has mild edgewear, faint soiling, and a tiny closed tear. Book has mild toning to the edges of the pageblock and minor shelfwear to the bottoms of the boards. An analysis of what led two Chechen immigrants to bomb the Boston marathon in 2013 by the Russian-American journalist and National Jewish Book Award-, Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism-, Media for Liberty Award-, Wallenberg Medal-, National Book Award-, and Hitchens Prize-winning author of "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" and "Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace". Uncommon signed.Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. 2015. Riverhead Books ISBN 1594632642 9781594632648 [US]

ISBN10: 1594632642, ISBN13: 9781594632648, [publisher: Riverhead Books] Hardcover First Edition Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed "For Boris’" by the author on the title page. 1st edition, 2nd printing. Dust jacket has mild edgewear, faint soiling, and a tiny closed tear. Book has mild toning to the edges of the pageblock and minor shelfwear to the bottoms of the boards. An analysis of what led two Chechen immigrants to bomb the Boston marathon in 2013 by the Russian-American journalist and National Jewish Book Award-, Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism-, Media for Liberty Award-, Wallenberg Medal-, National Book Award-, and Hitchens Prize-winning author of "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" and "Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace". Uncommon signed.Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
[San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]

ISBN10: 1594632642, ISBN13: 9781594632648, [publisher: Riverhead Books] Hardcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]

ISBN10: 1594632642, ISBN13: 9781594632648, [publisher: Riverhead Books] Hardcover Buy for Great customer experience
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]

ISBN10: 1594632642, ISBN13: 9781594632648, [publisher: Riverhead Books] Hardcover First Edition NF/NF. First edition, first printing. Signed by author on title page. 273 pp.
[Austin, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]

New York Riverhead Books 2015 First edition. First Edition-First Printing Hard cover New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Award Winning Author Masha Gessen in person. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. New (Pristine Condition) in a New (Pristine Condition) dust jacket; a tight, unread copy. First Edition-First Printing with a full number line beginning with a 1. Signed and dated on the Title page, by Award Winning Author Masha Gessen, in person, at the National Book Critics Circle Author Readings on March 14, 2018. A photo of Masha during the event, and an event announcement will be included. Masha has earned a number of Literary Honors including the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia"; and won the Hitchens Prize in 2018. Rest assure, this collectible copy is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.

ISBN10: 1594632642, ISBN13: 9781594632648, [publisher: Riverhead Books] Hardcover ZB 12-12 260124
[Amsterdam, NEDER, Netherlands] [Publication Year: 2015]