Imperial life in the Emerald City
Subtitle: inside Baghdad's green zone
By: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780747591788; 9780747591689
Subjects: Politics and government; Americans; History
Description: "The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distractions of a Little America." "Drawing on hundreds of interviews and internal documents, Chandrasekaran tells the story of the people and ideas that inhabited the Green Zone during the occupation, from the imperial viceroy L. Paul Bremer III to the fleet of twentysomethings hired to implement the idea that Americans could build a Jeffersonian democracy in an embattled Middle Eastern country."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Versailles on the Tigris; title: 2. A deer in the headlights; title: 3. You're in charge!; title: 4. Control freak; title: 5. Who are these people?; title: 6. We need to rethink this; title: 7. Bring a duffel bag; title: 8. A yearning for old times; title: 9. Let this be over; title: 10. The plan unravels; title: 11. A fool's errand; title: 12. We cannot continue like this; title: 13. Missed opportunities; title: 14. Breaking the rules; title: 15. Crazy, if not suicidal; title: 16. A lot left to be done.