Zusatztext 'Graham Greene would have loved Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a painfully funny account of the blundering American occupation of Iraq. It confirms everything he wrote in The Quiet American' Informationen zum Autor Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assisting managing editor of the Washington Post , where he has worked since 1994. He previously served the Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. He recently completed a term as journalist-in-residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. He lives in Washington, D.C. Klappentext From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. This work tells the story of this ill-prepared attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country. Vorwort A terrifying portrait of the gap between the Oz-like Green Zone and the brutal reality of post-war Iraq Zusammenfassung From inside a surreal bubble of pure Americana known as the Green Zone, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority attempted to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. This work tells the story of this ill-prepared attempt to build American democracy in a war-torn Middle Eastern country.
Paru le : 02/03/2008
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Auteur(s) : Auteur : Chandrasekaran, Rajiv
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Bloomsbury UK
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EAN13 : 9780747592891
Pages : 368
Hauteur: 197.0 cm / Largeur 130.0 cm
Épaisseur: 23.0 cm
Poids: 0 g
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