Imperial Life in the Emerald City
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competes with the distractions of a Little America--a half-dozen bars, a disco, a shopping mall--much of it run by Halliburton. While qualified Americans willing to serve in Iraq are screened for their views on Roe v. Wade, the country is put into the hands of inexperienced twentysomethings chosen for their Republican Party loyalty. Ignoring what Iraqis say they want or need, the team pursues irrelevant neoconservative solutions and pie-in-the-sky policies instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoring electricity production. Their almost comic initiatives anger the locals and fuel the insurgency. This is a quietly devastating portrait of imperial folly, and an essential book for anyone who wants to understand those early days when things went irrevocably wrong in Iraq.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. He has reported from more than three dozen countries and has served as the newspaper s bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq s Green Zone, a finalist for the National Book Award and one of The New York Times s 10 Best Books of 2007. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307278838 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307278832 |
| Title | Imperial Life in the Emerald City |
| Author | Rajiv Chandrasekaran |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2007-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Prizes | Winner of Overseas Press Club Book Award 2007, Winner of Ron Riddenhour Book Award 2007, Winner of Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2007, Short-listed for L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2007, Short-listed for National Book Awards 2006, Short-listed for New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism 2007 |
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