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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.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Imperial Life in the Emerald City : inside Iraq's Green Zone
Item Length: 7.9in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 5.2in
Author: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Corruption & Misconduct, Military / General, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), United States / 21st Century, American Government / General, Security (National & International)
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2007
Genre: History, Political Science
Item Weight: 10.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
