Imperial Life in the Emerald City  -  Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Inside Baghdad's Green Zone

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From a walled-off enclave of towering plants, smart villas and sparkling swimming pools - a surreal bubble of pure Americana 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, Rajiv Chandrasekaran tells the memorable story of this ill-prepared attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle...
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2009 Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 368 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1408807238 ISBN-13: 9781408807231