Warrick has a gift for constructing narratives with a novelistic energy and detail, and in this volume, he creates the most revealing portrait yet laid out in a book of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the founding father of the organization that would become the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL)." He added, "for readers interested in the roots of the Islamic State and the evil genius of its godfather there is no better book to begin with than Black Flags." Bob Drogin of the Los Angeles Times similarly described it as "invaluable for anyone struggling to understand the gruesome excesses and inexplicable appeal of ISIS," despite noting that it works better as a biography of al-Zarqawi than "explaining the subsequent 'rise of ISIS,' as the title promises." P. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it a "gripping new book" and wrote, "Mr. Reception Critical response īlack Flags has been praised by journalists. It won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book traces the rise and spread of militant Islam behind the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Xvii, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of platesĢ016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fictionīlack Flags: The Rise of ISIS is a 2015 non-fiction book by the American journalist Joby Warrick.
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