Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Categories: History

Imperial Life in the Emerald City is a 2006 book by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief of The Washington Post. It describes the Coalition Provisional Authority inside Baghdad's Green Zone under Paul Bremer, where young, often inexperienced American appointees tried to rebuild Iraq. It won the Samuel Johnson Prize and was a National Book Award finalist.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “He paints an incredibly rich picture of the crazy life in the Green Zone after the war.”