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Imperial Life in the Emerald City:
Inside Iraq’s
Green Zone
Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Bloomsbury)
Absolutely brilliant. It is eyewitness history of
the first order. . . It should be read by anyone who wants
to understand how things went so badly wrong in Iraq.’
The New York Times Book Review
From a walled-off enclave of towering plants, smart villas
and sparkling swimming pools – a surreal bubble of
pure Americana known as the Green Zone – the US-led
Coalition Provisional Authority, under imperial viceroy L.
Paul Bremer III, attempted to rule Iraq in the first twelve
months after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews and internal documents,
Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells the memorable story of this ill-prepared
attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle
Eastern country. This is the hair-raising portrait of the
gap between the Oz-like Green Zone and the brutal reality
of post-war Iraq.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assistant managing editor of The
Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. He previously
served the Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo,
and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war
in Afghanistan. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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