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List of contents
Contents
1. Eleven Months Left
2. The First Thousand
3. Twenty- one Years Left
4. The School
5. The Student
6. Four Years Left
7. The Student
8. The American
9. Two Years Left
10. The Mechanic
11. Nine Months Left
12. The Astronomer
13. Eight Months Left
14. The Troublemaker
15. Seven Months Left
16. The Troublemaker
17. Six Months Left
18. The Driver
19. Five Months Left
20. The Student
21. The Mechanic
22. Four Months Left
23. Three Months Left
24. The Student
25. Two Months Left
26. The Driver
27. The Mechanic
28. One Month Left
29. The Storyteller
Epilogue
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
About the author
At the age of twenty-three, Jeffrey E. Stern went to Afghanistan, and while reporting on the region, worked with the American University of Afghanistan to launch its Professional Development Institute and helped initiate Goldman Sachs' inaugural
10,000 Women initiative. Additionally, Stern has worked for the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and was named both a Pulitzer Center Fellow for Crisis Reporting, and was a Graduate Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict and Negotiation. Stern's reporting has appeared in
Vanity Fair, Esquire, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Newsweek, Slate, Time, and
The New Republic. He has also been featured on PBS News Hour, NPR Morning Edition, and Morning Joe among others.
