BooksBook RecommendationEpoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for April 19–25CopyFacebookXTruthGettrLinkedInTelegramEmailSaveBy Dustin Bass, Jeff Minick, Mark Lardas and Barbara Danza4/18/2024Updated: 4/18/2024Print0:00X 1This week, we feature a hard-hitting analysis of the war in Iraq, along with Mark Twain’s love letter to the antebellum American steamboat.History‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq’