{"id":1938,"date":"2008-10-28T04:32:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T04:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-10-28T04:33:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T04:33:27","slug":"books_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here are the books I bought at the Strand. there’s a rationale for many of the the choices (three of the books don’t belong to the set), and the first correct guess wins something (to be determined).Carew, Jihad!<\/a>
\nEwans, Afghanistan, A Short history of Its People and Politics<\/a>
\nFraser, Flashman<\/a>
\nGerber, The Social Origins of the Modern Middle East<\/a>
\nGerges, Journey of the Jihadist<\/a>
\nHodes and Sedra, The Search for Security in Post-Taliban Afghanistan<\/a>
\nMcIntyre, The Man Who Would Be King<\/a>
\nMeyer, The Dust of Empire<\/a>
\nRashid, Taliban<\/a> (yes, I appear to have won the used-book lotto on this one…)
\nRenault, Fire From Heaven<\/a>
\nRushdie, The Best American Short Stories 2008<\/a>
\nWest, No True Glory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal buys books…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}