Babylon by Bus (book)

Babylon By Bus
Author	Ray Lemoine, Jeff Neumann (with Donovan Webster)
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Travel
Genre	Nonfiction
Publisher	Penguin Books
Publication date	2006
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	311 pp
ISBN	1-59420-091-2 (hardcover)
OCLC	65521644
Dewey Decimal	956.7044/3092 B 22
LC Class	DS79.76 .L46 2006

Babylon by Bus is a 2006 book by two friends, Ray Lemoine and Jeff Neumann, who gave up their valuable franchise selling "Yankees Suck" T-Shirts at Fenway Park to find meaning and adventure in Iraq, where they became employed by the occupation in jobs for which they lacked qualification and witnessed much that amazed and disturbed them.

The book is written from Lemoine's point of view.

Summary

The book starts out with Lemoine and Neumann at Yankee Stadium, a baseball stadium in Bronx, New York. A turn of events in the Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees game leaves them feeling down, and the two find themselves wanting to travel to somewhere they have never been before.

The book is then set in Post-War Iraq, which is occupied by the American military, and the CPA.

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