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    Rajiv Chandrasekaran on 'Little America' in Afghanistan

    Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an editor and foreign correspondent for the Washington Post.  His book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City , was a scathing account of US mishandling of the war in Iraq. His latest is Little America : the War Within the War for Afghanistan. We talked to him at KCRW's studio in Santa Monica in July.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Rajiv Chandrasekaran

    is an editor and foreign correspondent for the Washington Post. His book,

    Imperial Life in the Emerald City, was a scathing account of US mishandling of the war in Iraq. His latest is

    Little America: the War Within the War for Afghanistan

    . We talked to him at KCRW's studio in Santa Monica in July.

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      Warren Olney

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      Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    Our Favorite Author Interviews of 2012
    1. 0:00David Maraniss on Obama
    2. 7:52Rajiv Chandrasekaran on 'Little America' in AfghanistanYou’re reading this
    3. 23:25Salman Rushdie's Memoir
    4. 34:01Lynn Povich on the Good Girls Revolt at Newsweek
    5. 41:41Steve Coll on ExxonMobil
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