Imperial life in the emerald city : inside Iraq's green zone /
Finalist for the National Book Award, this is the startling portrait of an Oz-like place where a vital aspect of our government's folly in Iraq played out. In this unprecedented account, the Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Raviv Chandrasekaran, takes us with him into the Gre...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2006.html |
Table of Contents:
- Map of the Green Zone
- Prologue
- part 1. Building the bubble
- Versailles on the Tigris
- A deer in the headlights
- The Green Zone, scene I
- You're in charge!
- The Green Zone, scene II
- Control freak
- The Green Zone, scene III
- Who are these people?
- The Green Zone, scene IV
- We need to rethink this
- The Green Zone, scene V
- Bring a duffel bag
- The Green Zone, scene VI
- A yearning for old times
- part 2. Shattered dreams
- Let this be over
- The Green Zone, scene VII
- The plan unravels
- The Green Zone, scene VIII
- A fool's errand
- The Green Zone, scene IX
- We cannot continue like this
- The Green Zone, scene X
- Missed opportunities
- The Green Zone, scene XI
- Breaking the rules
- The Green Zone, scene XII
- Crazy, if not suicidal
- The Green Zone, scene XIII
- A lot left to be done
- Epilogue.