After Saddam: My Life as Iraq's Governor

When retired diplomat and counterterrorism expert Paul "Jerry" Bremer arrived in postwar Baghdad as a "viceroy," he was shocked by the violence, destruction, and chaos he found. The Iraqi army was gone, there was no usable currency, looters were everywhere, the electricity was out, the food supply was in jeopardy. With all his might—and despite fierce political opposition—Bremer tried to revive the economy and put the country on the path to democracy. In After Saddam, Bremer describes his work with Iraqi leaders to draft a constitution that would guarantee individual human rights. He also writes about his meetings with President Bush and his many conversations with Secretaries Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Colin Powell. Bremer provides a dramatic account of his staff's heroic efforts to offer the ravaged Iraqi people some hope for peace and a future. It is an honest, first-hand account of the chaos and danger, as told by the man charged by President Bush with rebuilding a devastated Iraq. A gripping and chilling account of the first year in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.