title: Father of Money: Buying Peace in Baghdad
author:  Jason Whiteley 
description: "... a masterstroke of psychological and practical warfare..." - <b>The New York Post</b><br /><br />"The American led invasion of Iraq has spawned a flood of books on its causes and its course, but few have been as enlightening as this one." <b>- Macleans Magazine</b><br /><br />"If you read one book on what guys on the ground faced during deployments to Iraq (and presumably Afghanistan as I have not been there), <i>Father of Money</i> should be it" - <b>Jason Fritz, Ink Spots</b><br /><br />"The writing is good throughout, indeed sometimes very good, and the audience benefits from a narrative that gradually inducts the reader into Iraqi society alongside a nave Captain Whiteley." - <b>Jim Drury, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America</b><br /><br />"I strongly recommend this book to all junior and mid-level officers in preparation for future deployments where the army will likely be asked again to help establish local governance and jump-start the local economy." <b>- Lt. Col. David T. Seigel, USA (Ret.), professor, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College</b><br /><br />"While I especially wish I had read this book before I went to Iraq, I am glad to have been able to read it after I came home." <b>- Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well</b>
zlib_text: FATHER OF MONEY
  
  RELATED TITLES FROM POTOMAC BOOKS
  
   _Iraq in Transition:_  
   _The Legacy of Dictatorship and the Prospects for Democracy_  
  —Peter J. Munson
  
   _Losing the Golden Hour:_  
   _An Insider’s View of Iraq’s Reconstruction_  
  —James Stephenson
  
   **FATHER OF MONEY**
  
   _Buying Peace in Baghdad_
  
  JASON WHITELEY
  
  FORMER CAPTAIN, U.S. ARMY
  
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  Copyright © 2011 by Jason Whiteley
  
  Published in the United States by Potomac Books, Inc. All rights reserved. No
  part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written
  permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied
  in critical articles and reviews.
  
   **Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data**  
  Whiteley, Jason, 1977-
  
  Father of money : buying peace in Baghdad / Jason Whiteley. — 1st ed.
  
  p. cm.
  
  ISBN 978-1-59797-544-5 (hardcover: alk. paper)
  
  1\. Whiteley, Jason, 1977- 2. Civil-military relations—Iraq—Baghdad. 3.
  Postwar reconstruction—Moral and ethi