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Born in Casablanca in 1944, Christian de Portzamparc entered the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1962. Amongst all the protagonists in the revival of French architecture, he had the most exemplary career. Since the 1970s, Portzamparc has dealt with all the main issues that his generation reintroduced into the architectural debate. From la Roquette in 1974 to the Cite de la Musique, via the Hautes Formes area in Paris and on to the LVMH tower in New York, this book covers all his projects. Illustrated with plans and previously unpublished drawings, it offers an acute analysis of the architect and his work, studying the personal vocabulary that he has developed throughout his career.
- Sales Rank: #1416416 in Books
- Published on: 2003-10-28
- Released on: 2003-10-28
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 7.74" h x .59" w x 5.38" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 208 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Turnipseed has expanded a 1997 GQ article on his experiences as a reluctant Marine during the first war with Iraq into a compelling memoir that has more than a little in common with Anthony Swofford's Jarhead, which was also an account of the camaraderie, "soul rending boredom" and horror of life on the battlefield by a bookish soldier more comfortable hefting a pen than a gun. In 1990, Turnipseed is a college dropout in Minnesota, spending his days sipping coffee and reading Nietzsche, when his unit is called up for active duty. The first thing he does is decide to start smoking. Armed with a pack of Camels (later a pipe), a journal and a duffel full of philosophy texts, Turnipseed soon finds himself hauling munitions through the Saudi desert. His bunkmates, with their Game Boys and beer parties, at first regard him with suspicion. And no wonder: when his nose isn't buried in a Kierkegaard tome, he's prone to pedantic lectures and generally comes across as sneering and pretentious. For a while, Turnipseed relishes his role as egghead among the meatheads. Offered a warm Old Milwaukee one night by one of his brothers-in-arms, Turnipseed waves him off and turns back to his book. "Get real," the soldier retorts. "We're all in this together now, philosopher. Better make the best of what ya got." And soon, of course, his pompous veneer melts away in the desert sun and he realizes he has more in common with his Marine brothers than he would ever have thought. This is a coming-of-age story with all the right ingredients: self-deprecation, wit, insight, irony and a lucid, enthusiastic writing style. The Marine who emerges at war's end is older and wiser-and liked and accepted by his unit-and a pretty good writer to boot.
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Review
"An edgy, street-talking trip into the often inane realities of 'high-tech' contemporaty warfare. Turnipseed gives us an invaluable tale of war as it is, reckless and semi-nsane. Americans, in our perilous times, should be paying attention--reading this book, this vivid story about getting to the far side of triumph."
"A deeply felt account of an exile's passage across the back office landscape of modern war. Turnipseed is a lucid, passionate, and oddball observer with an extraordinary ear for vernacular speech and a deft and understated prose style. His book is the best dispatch so far from the Middle East desert battleground."
"This is a wonderfully timely book. Baghdad Express is well-written, very up to date, and in many ways an amazing tour de force."
From the Inside Flap
"An edgy, street-talking trip into the often inane realities of 'high-tech' contemporary warfare. Turnipseed gives us an invaluable tale of war as it is, reckless and semi-insane. Americans, in our perilous times, should be paying attention--reading this book, this vivid story about getting to the far side of triumph." -- William Kittredge
"A deeply felt account of an exile's passage across the back office landscape of modern war. Turnipseed is a lucid, passionate, and oddball observer with an extraordinary ear for vernacular speech and a deft and understated prose style. His book is the best dispatch so far from the Middle East desert battleground." -- Alec Wilkinson
"This is a wonderfully timely book. Baghdad Express is well-written, very up to date, and in many ways an amazing tour de force." -- Robert Bly
"BAGHDAD EXPRESS manages--remarkably--to keep us there in the moment (1990-91) with the author's scared, smartassed and likably philosophic self, even as it exercises the controlling perspective of the older-and-wiser (if still young) man now telling the story. Despite its profane good humor, the book has less in common with most modern American war memoirs than with prose works produced by the sensitive British soldier-poets of the First World War. And yet, for all that, the author has created something entirely unto itself. Joel Turnipseed was never a natural Marine; but he's a writer, for sure." -- Thomas Mallon, author of "Henry and Clara" and "Two Moons"
"This is the rarest of war memoirs--an account of the unglamorous, written with laugh-out-loud dialogue, that also reminds us why philosophy matters. Turnipseed has rubbed the jewelry of our philosophic heritage across the touchstone of war and shown which proves true gold and which a shining fraud. He and his Marine comrades in Desert Storm, black and white, deserve our honor and thanks." -- Jonathan Shay, author of "Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character" and "Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming"
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
He writes with wit and adds insight through philosophy.
By fdoamerica
M*A*S*H*, with the 4077th, was one of TV's most beloved military sitcoms. Turnipseed, like the writers of M*A*S*H*, captures, in this memoir, the monotony of military life, the irony of military regulations, and the tragedy of war.
For those who have suffered through the empty hours of guard duty; for those who were assigned to meaningless, tedious tasks; for those know the meaning of the acronyms: `FUBAR' and `SNAFU', this book will bring back memories.
Turnipseed was lost, homeless and directionless before being called to active service. In the 1991 Iraq War, Turnipseed was stationed with the Marine Corp Sixth Motor Transport Battalion.
"Not till we are lost, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves". These words by Thoreau `s were Joel Turnipseed's scripture and his compass during the war.
During this war, he found meaning and direction. He writes with wit and adds insight through philosophy. Recommended.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
one of the best accounts of the gulf war yet
By Joe Sherry
Baghdad Express is a memoir of the first Gulf War written by Minnesota native Joel Turnipseed. Since this came out around the same time as Anthony Swofford's Jarhead, there will likely be some comparisons. There shouldn't be. Baghdad Express is much better. On a very basic level, Turnipseed is a better writer than Swofford is. Baghdad Express is well constructed and follows from beginning to end the tour of duty in Desert Storm.
Joel Turnipseed is a different kind of a soldier. More of an intellectual than the prototypical warrior, he would much rather be in a coffeehouse discussing philosophy than in a military caravan. However, Joel Turnipseed is a Marine. He wanted out of the Corps, but never left and now he was called up and activated. When we learn that Turnipseed brings volumes and volumes of philosophy with him to war, we know that we are in for a different kind of war story.
Turnipseed was a driver for the Baghdad Express. The Baghdad Express was the largest supply line in recorded war. He would drive up to 600 miles a day in round trips bringind supplies and material to the front lines where the fighting and flying is going on. So while he wasn't a front line fighting soldier, he had a vital role in the first Gulf War. He relates his experiences in the war. Partially an outcast because of his philosophy, he was also included in a group called the Dog Pound. The Dog Pound was mostly African-American soldiers (Turnipseed is white) who loved to talk. Community was build through trading insults and fast moving conversation. Turnipseed's ability to adapt to this and his inclusion into the group (even spouting philosophy and have it listened to) was probably vital to his experience. However, as the war ends and the Minnesota group came back, Turnipseed finds himself slipping out of the Dog Pound that was his home for the duration of the war.
This was a very different look at a war because of who Joel Turnipseed is. He writes as a disclaimer that this is a memoir of memory and not of journalism so any mistakes is from what he remembers and perhaps not as everything actually happened....and this is a very honest admission. This is his story as he remembers it. He tells it very well and it is the best account I have read of the Gulf War (Thus far).
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A view of war from the rear
By Richard J. August
Turnipseed's memoir of his experiences in the first Gulf War is in many ways the antithesis of Anthony Swofford's best-selling account, "Jarhead". Whereas Swofford was a scout/sniper in a regular Marine infantry unit, Turnipseed was a reservist truck driver called to active duty while trying to complete a degree in philosophy. We see life in a combat zone from the perspective of what the Grunt calls REMFs. (If you don't know what that acronym stands for, I'll let you play with it in your mind.)If the infantryman's existence is mostly boredom, living in filth and waitng around for something to happen, the support enlisted person's is tedium, living in less than sanitary conditions and trying to dodge the mind-numbing games the military plays with its members' heads. This feeling Turnipseed captures quite well. An example is the scene where the troops are assembled and told to take a combination of pills. Some of the more thinking Marines join with the author in a discussion of whether or not they should take this phamacuetical cocktail and what the side- and after effects might be.
As a former elisted soldier in the days of the military draft I can sympathize with Turnipseed's description of the abject loneliness one feels when joining a new unit. When separated from his buddies in the resreve unit he went to the Gulf with, the author ends up spending most of the war with a predominately Black platoon of truck drivers. They eventually accept him, are amused by his deep, thoughtful observations and nickname him the "Perfessah".
The description of his troubled youth including beatings at the hands of an alcoholic father and abandonment by a mother with mental problems and his motivation for joining the Marines are, I suspect, not atypical of the all-recruited military. One tiresome part of the narrative is the author's constant reference to firing up a Camel -a habit he began just before leaving for active duty. On second thought, this may be a literary device to illustrate the boredom of war in the rear. This is a good, quick read that will upset some readers who view everyone in uniform as a "lean, mean fightin' machine".
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