After 9/11: the graphic adaptation

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux has give us permission to post the following excerpts from After 9/11: America’s War on Terror (2001- ), by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón. A self-described “work of graphic journalism” by the same folks who put together the visual adaptation of the 9/11 report, the book is a very cool way ...

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Farrar, Straus, and Giroux has give us permission to post the following excerpts from After 9/11: America's War on Terror (2001- ), by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón. A self-described "work of graphic journalism" by the same folks who put together the visual adaptation of the 9/11 report, the book is a very cool way to look at what's happened over the past seven years.

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux has give us permission to post the following excerpts from After 9/11: America’s War on Terror (2001- ), by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón. A self-described “work of graphic journalism” by the same folks who put together the visual adaptation of the 9/11 report, the book is a very cool way to look at what’s happened over the past seven years.

Below is a vignette from the book, which shows the Bush administration shifting its focus from Afghanistan to Iraq:

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