Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green ZoneThe fullest, most intimate account of life in the Green Zone, the sheltered bubble where idealistic Americans planned the occupation while Iraq fell apart. 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 political affiliations and views on issues such as abortion, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate crises of a postwar nation. In this acclaimed firsthand account, the former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post gives us an intimate and remarkably dispassionate portrait of life inside this Oz-like place, which continued unaffected by the growing mayhem outside. 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. |
Contents
Map of the Green Zone xi | 4 |
Youre in Charge | 45 |
The Green Zone Scene II | 63 |
The Green Zone Scene III | 92 |
The Green Zone Scene IV | 113 |
We Need to Rethink This 1 15 | 137 |
The Green Zone Scene VI | 167 |
Let This Be Over 195 | 194 |
The Green Zone Scene IX | 249 |
The Green Zone Scene X | 263 |
The Green Zone Scene XI | 282 |
The Green Zone Scene X11 | 292 |
The Green Zone Scene XIII | 315 |
Epilogue | 331 |
Acknowledgments | 339 |
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone Rajiv Chandrasekaran Limited preview - 2007 |
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