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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
🏆 Winner of the 2007 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
☆ Shortlisted for the National Book Award
The former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post offers a damning account of the goings-on within the walled-off enclave of swimming pools and luxury villas in US-occupied Iraq, as idealistic aides attempt to fashion an American-style democracy out of the ruins of a wartorn Middle Eastern capital.
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