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Chandrasekaran, Rajiv.

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Imperial life in the emerald city : = inside Iraq's green zone /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imperial life in the emerald city :/ Rajiv Chandrasekaran.
Reminder of title:	inside Iraq's green zone /
remainder title:	Inside Iraq's green zone
Author:	Chandrasekaran, Rajiv.
Published:	New York :Vintage Books, : 2007.,
Description:	xii, 365 p. :maps ;21 cm.
Subject:	Iraq War, 2003- -
Subject:	Coalition Provisional Authority. -
ISBN:	0307278832 (pbk.)

Imperial life in the emerald city : = inside Iraq's green zone /
Chandrasekaran, Rajiv.

Imperial life in the emerald city :inside Iraq's green zone /Inside Iraq's green zoneRajiv Chandrasekaran. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York :Vintage Books,2007. - xii, 365 p. :maps ;21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Finalist for the National Book Award, this is the startling portrait of an Oz-like place where a vital aspect of our government's folly in Iraq played out. In this unprecedented account, the Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Raviv Chandrasekaran, takes us with him into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. In this bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distractions of a Little America were a half-dozen bars stocked with cold beer, a disco where women showed up in hot pants, a shopping mall, and a parking lot filled with shiny new SUV's, much of it run by Halliburton. 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. Their almost comic initiatives anger the locals and fuel the insurgency. Most Iraqis were barred from entering the Emerald City for fear they would blow it up.

ISBN: 0307278832 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2007279787Subjects--Topical Terms:

587064
Iraq War, 2003-
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

921228
Coalition Provisional Authority.

LC Class. No.: DS79.769 / .C53 2007

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