Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (National Book Award Finalist), (Paperback)

from ohernaes

Heavy indictment of the American civilian administration in Iraq during the occupation 2003-04. The amount of groupthink, suppression of dissent and intentional conformity pressure present that Chandrasekaran details is almost hard to believe. Republican party connections and a right-thinking att...

from rivkat

The US did a series of terrible things to the Iraqi people, often pretty much the worst possible choice at any given time. I don't want to downplay the human cost, but one way to read this book about the insulated lives of Americans within the Baghdad Green Zone and the truly stupid things they t...

from tmph

Movie has very little to do with the book; and I found the movie to be very disappointing, very simple-minded. The book, on the other hand, is extremely powerful, extremely sad. The pathetic, criminal ignorance and ineptitude of the Bush Administration, Rumsfeld's DOD, and the neo-conservatives r...

from brokenangelkisses

Disappointingly often, I find that I disagree completely with the exultant praises strewn liberally across the covers of books. 'Superb!' and 'Amazing!' often turns out to mean dull and ponderous, especially where non-fiction is concerned. Surprisingly, then, I feel compelled to state that I agre...

from brokenangelkisses

Disappointingly often, I find that I disagree completely with the exultant praises strewn liberally across the covers of books. 'Superb!' and 'Amazing!' often turns out to mean dull and ponderous, especially where non-fiction is concerned. Surprisingly, then, I feel compelled to state that I agre...