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...Carlson certainly got a book, but not before dodging a series of obstacles, some bureaucratic, some altogether more menacing...
...talked about it almost 15 hours a day,” Carlson recalls. “We were sort of crazed about...
...months and a meager $6000 advance from The Lyons Press later, Carlson, armed with “a tiny 20-dollar Radio Shack mini-tape-recorder,” was alone on an April 16, 2003 flight to Qatar...
...unaffiliated with the official embedding program; the money given him and Katovsky by their publisher would cover the plane tickets and a driver into Iraq, but Carlson still had little idea of how exactly he would secure passage into the war-torn country to do his interviews. And if things didn?...
After getting in touch with a public affairs officer from the American army, Carlson got from Qatar to Kuwait, where he says he spent a week “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.” He also had to settle the matter of getting someone to transport him over the uneasy Iraqi border...