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IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: INSIDE BAGHDAD'S GREEN ZONE
de Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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(Subject: Post World War II - General) From a walled-off enclave of towering plants, smart villas and sparkling swimming pools, known as the Green Zone - the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority, under imperial viceroy L. Paul Bremer III, attempted to rule Iraq in the first twelve months after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and internal documents,the author tells the story of this ill-prepared attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country, detailing not only the risky disbanding of the Iraqi army and the ludicrous attempt to train the new police force, but also bringing to light a host of lesser-known yet typical travesties (Published: 2007) (Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing) (ISBN: 9780747591689) (Pagination: 356pp map) (Condition: Near fine in d/w) UL-XXXXXX
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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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: INSIDE BAGHDAD'S GREEN ZONE
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- Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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- ISBN 10
- 0747591687
- ISBN 13
- 9780747591689
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- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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- London
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- 2007
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