| Description |
x, 320 pages : map ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Versailles on the Tigris -- 2. A deer in the headlights -- 3. You're in charge! -- 4. Control freak -- 5. Who are these people? -- 6. We need to rethink this -- 7. Bring a duffel bag -- 8. A yearning for old times -- 9. Let this be over -- 10. The plan unravels -- 11. A fool's errand -- 12. We cannot continue like this -- 13. Missed opportunities -- 14. Breaking the rules -- 15. Crazy, if not suicidal -- 16. A lot left to be done |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-306) and index |
| Subject |
Coalition Provisional Authority.
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Postwar reconstruction -- Iraq.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011.
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Political corruption -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001002071
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| LC no. |
2006041014 |
| ISBN |
9781400044870 |
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1400044871 alkaline paper |
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