Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Chandrasekaran, Rajiv

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (National Book Award Finalist) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307278838)

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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Chandrasekaran, Rajiv

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (National Book Award Finalist)

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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Chandrasekaran, Rajiv

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (National Book Award Finalist)

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - National Book Award Finalist - This "eyewitness history of the first order ... should be read by anyone who wants to understand how things went so badly wrong in Iraq" (The New York Times Book Review).

The Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and capital punishment, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate needs of a postwar nation: flat taxes instead of electricity and deregulated health care instead of emergency medical supplies.

In this acclaimed firsthand account, the former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post gives us an intimate portrait of life inside this Oz-like bubble, which continued unaffected by the growing mayhem outside. This is a quietly devastating tale of imperial folly, and the definitive history of those early days when things went irrevocably wrong in Iraq.



Author: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
ISBN-10: 0307278832
ISBN-13: 9780307278838
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2007
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.42h x 5.54w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/03/2007 pg. 28
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post and currently heads the Post's continuous news department, which provides breaking news stories to the paper's Web site, washingtonpost.com. Prior to that he was bureau chief in Baghdad, before, during, and after the war. Previously he served as Cairo bureau chief and Southeast Asia correspondent, and covered the war in Afghanistan. He joined the Post in 1994. He has served as the journalist in residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington, and as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, also in Washington.

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