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One of the brand new York Times Top 10 Books of 2007 and A National Book Award Finalist
The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us in to the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In such a bubble separated from wartime realities, the duty of reconstructing a devastated nation competes with the distractions of just a little America--a half-dozen bars, a disco, a shopping mall--much from it run by Halliburton. While qualified Americans willing to serve in Iraq are screened because of their views on Roe v. Wade, the country is put into the hands of inexperienced young people chosen because of their Republican Party loyalty. This unprecedented account shows how the Coalition Provisional Authority helped fuel the insurgency by ignoring what Iraqis say they want, as the team pursues irrelevant neoconservative solutions and pie-in-the-sky policies instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoring electricity production.
