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Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Green Zone)
By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Narrated By Ray Porter

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Length: 10 hours and 18 min.
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Audiobook Summary: In this unprecedented account, The Washington Post 's former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competes with the distractions of a Little America: a half-dozen bars, a disco, a shopping mall - much of it run by Halliburton. While qualified Americans willing to serve in Iraq are screened for their views on Roe v. Wade , the country is put into the hands of inexperienced 20-somethings chosen for their Republican Party loyalty. Ignoring what Iraqis say they want or need, the team pursues irrelevant neoconservative solutions and pie-in-the-sky policies instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoring electricity. Their almost comic initiatives anger the locals and fuel the insurgency.

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Audiobook Keywords: History, 21st Century, History, American, History, Political, Nonfiction, Politics

Tags: Nonfiction History American Politics 21st Century Political