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    A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
    A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
    A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
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    A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State

    Written by Zach Vertin

    Narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla

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    Through personal stories of identity, liberation, and survival, this remarkable book chronicles the birth of South Sudan?America's attempt to forge a nation from scratch.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateJan 29, 2019
    ISBN9781666570854
    Author

    Zach Vertin

    Zach Vertin is an American writer, a foreign policy expert, and a former diplomat. He is currently a lecturer at Princeton University and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Doha Center. He previously served in the Obama Administration as a senior adviser to the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and Sudan South Sudan, and, prior to that, he was a Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group. He currently resides in Washington, DC.

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