Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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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.
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Summary
Summary
Winner of the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction
Winner of the 2006 Cornelius Ryan Award
A 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction
A 2007 Guardian First Book Award Finalist
A 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest
A 2007 New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year
New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Nonfiction, 2007
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.
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Available Formats : | Digital Download, Digital Rental, CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/History |
Runtime: | 10.31 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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