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David RieffDavid Rieff is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of seven previous books, including the acclaimed At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis; and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West. He lives in New York City.

David Rieff's Books

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Swimming in a Sea of Death Browse Inside Swimming in a Sea of Death
Swimming in a Sea of Death A Son's Memoir By: David Rieff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: December 30, 2008
Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the...
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Other Formats: eBook
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At the Point of a Gun Browse Inside At the Point of a Gun
At the Point of a Gun Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention By: David Rieff
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2005
Writing from the front lines of the hot wars of the post-Cold War world -- the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq for The New York Times Magazine -- David Rieff witnessed firsthand most of...
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Other Formats: Trade Paperback
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A Bed for the Night Browse Inside A Bed for the Night
A Bed for the Night Humanitarianism in Crisis By: David Rieff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publication date: September 30, 2003
Timely and controversial, A Bed for the Night reveals how humanitarian organizations are often betrayed and misused, and have increasingly lost sight of their purpose. Drawing on firsthand reporting from war zones around the...
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE
SLAUGHTERHOUSE Bosnia and the Failure of the West By: David Rieff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: March 8, 1996
In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations for standing by and doing...
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The Exile Browse Inside The Exile
The Exile Cuba in the Heart of Miami By: David Rieff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: August 31, 1994
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Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World Browse Inside Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World
Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World By: David Rieff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: September 1, 1992