{"product_id":"imperial-life-in-the-emerald-city-inside-iraqs-green-zone-national-book-award-finalist-paperback","title":"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (National Book Award Finalist) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRajiv Chandrasekaran\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003cb\u003eNational Book Award Finalist - This \"eyewitness history of the first order ... should be read by anyone who wants to understand how things went so badly wrong in Iraq\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, 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.\u003cp\u003e In this acclaimed firsthand account, the former Baghdad bureau chief of \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRajiv Chandrasekaran\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant managing editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and currently heads the \u003ci\u003ePost's\u003c\/i\u003e continuous news department, which provides breaking news stories to the paper's Web site, washingtonpost.com. Prior to that he was bureau chief in Baghdad, before, during, and after the war. Previously he served as Cairo bureau chief and Southeast Asia correspondent, and covered the war in Afghanistan. He joined the \u003ci\u003ePost\u003c\/i\u003e in 1994. He has served as the journalist in residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in Washington, and as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, also in Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 7.42 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754178183456,"sku":"9780307278838","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c386c45e20df81486e31bff8e3f99990.webp?v=1780035098","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/imperial-life-in-the-emerald-city-inside-iraqs-green-zone-national-book-award-finalist-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}