Books by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
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.
Interviews where books by Rajiv Chandrasekaran were recommended
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Question 7
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by Hallie Rubenhold
Baillie Gifford Prize-Winning Nonfiction Books
Baillie Gifford Prize-Winning Nonfiction Books
It's a prize that has been awarded annually since 1999 to a book that speaks to an important issue but is also highly readable. Below you'll find all the winners of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the UK's most prestigious non-fiction book award—from a gripping account of a turning point in World War II to a terrifying forest fire in an oil town in Canada.
