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Imperial life in the Emerald City, inside Iraq's green zone, Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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Imperial life in the Emerald City, inside Iraq's green zone, Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-306) and index

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Imperial life in the Emerald City

Nature of contents

bibliography

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64427530

Responsibility statement

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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Gift collection

Sub title

inside Iraq's green zone

Summary

The Green Zone, Baghdad, 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 --, Provided by Publisher

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Inside Iraq's green zone

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