Imperial Life in the Emerald City :Inside Baghdad's Green Zone
Imperial Life in the Emerald City :Inside Baghdad's Green Zone
paperback
Published:
3 March, 2008
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Description
Prizes
Winner of BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2007,Short-listed for British Book Awards: Waterstones Newcomer of the Year Award 2008,Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2007
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780747592891 |
| ISBN10 | 0747592896 |
| Number Of Pages | 368 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 22 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
'Black comedy, set in the graveyard of the neo-conservative dream. Superb' John le Carre 'The best account I have read of why the American occupation of Iraq has gone so drastically wrong ... An exceptional piece of work, well researched, well written and well judged ... I cannot remember a book that does more to enhance our understanding of the country than this one' Said K. Aburish, Spectator 'It's an extraordinary work of journalism that provides one of the most powerful cases yet made against the disastrous adventure in Iraq. Like a documentary Catch-22, this gripping book shows how the Bush administration's abject failure to plan for the period after the invasion gave rise to a toxic mixture of tragedy and farce' Hari Kunzru, Guardian Books of the Year 2007 'Graham Greene would have loved Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a painfully funny account of the blundering American occupation of Iraq. It confirms everything he wrote in The Quiet American' Philip French, Guardian Books of the Year 2007
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Author's Bio
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assisting managing editor of the Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. He previously served the Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. He recently completed a term as journalist-in-residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. He lives in Washington, D.C.