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 young people chosen for their Republican Party loyalty. This unprecedented account shows how the Coalition Provisional Authority helped fuel the insurgency by ignoring what Iraqis say they need, as the team pursues irrelevant neoconservative solutions and pie-in-the-sky policies instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoring electricity production.
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One of the New York Times Top 10 Books of 2007 and A National Book Award Finalist
Editorial Reviews
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Narrator Ray Porter delivers the author's story of hubris, corruption, excess, and destruction with the perfect degree of revulsion, outrage, and disdain....[Chandrasekaran] misses not a detail or nuance in this unintentional black comedy, nor does the highly professional Porter. --AudioFile
A vividly detailed portrait of the Green Zone and the Coalition Provisional Authority that becomes a metaphor for the administration's larger failings in Iraq…often reads like something out of Catch-22 or MASH. --New York Times
As chilling an indictment of America's tragic cultural myopia as Graham Greene's prescient 1955 novel of the American debacle in Indochina, The Quiet American.--New York Times
Extraordinary….Indispensable….Full of jaw-dropping tales of the myriad large and small ways in which Bremer and his team poured fuel into the lethal cauldron that is today's Iraq.--Washington Post Book World
With acuity and a fine sense of the absurd, the author peels back the roof to reveal an ant heap of arrogance, ineptitude, and hayseed provincialism.--Boston Globe --.
A vividly detailed portrait of the Green Zone and the Coalition Provisional Authority that becomes a metaphor for the administration's larger failings in Iraq…often reads like something out of Catch-22 or MASH. --New York Times
As chilling an indictment of America's tragic cultural myopia as Graham Greene's prescient 1955 novel of the American debacle in Indochina, The Quiet American.--New York Times
Extraordinary….Indispensable….Full of jaw-dropping tales of the myriad large and small ways in which Bremer and his team poured fuel into the lethal cauldron that is today's Iraq.--Washington Post Book World
With acuity and a fine sense of the absurd, the author peels back the roof to reveal an ant heap of arrogance, ineptitude, and hayseed provincialism.--Boston Globe --.
About the Author
RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, where he has previously served as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. He recently completed a term as journalist-in-residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Informative Book on the Iraq Green Zone, and the aftermath of the war.,
By AB970 (Fort Collins, CO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Audio CD)
I listened to the book twice.
It has a world of information and is very interesting. It brings the reader right into the American Green Zone experience and explains the source of many of the pitfalls and challenges faced in the aftermath of the war. I recommend it to everyone in the USA.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Should be mandatory reading,
A Kid's Review
This review is from: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Audio CD)
Pro or con on the Iraq war, everyone should read this book! I don't think many Americans have any idea what life is really like over there for our military.
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