Rajiv Chandrasekaran
To celebrate the paperback release of For Love of Country: What
Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice
Join us for a conversation on November 5, at 11am, at the Starbucks Military Family Store, Wards Corner
7550 Granby Street Norfolk, VA 23505
Rajiv Chandrasekaran was a senior correspondent and associate editor, and national editor of The Washington Post. During his newspaper career, he reported from more than three dozen countries and was a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo and Southeast Asia.
In 2014, he wrote the bestselling book For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism and Sacrifice with Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard Schultz.
Rajiv is also the author of two other bestselling books: Little America and Inside
Iraq’s Green Zone, which was named one of the ten best books of 2007 by The New
York Times and inspired the movie Green Zone.
Wards Corner Now - Wards Corner, Norfolk, Virginia 
This partnership between Chandrasekaran and Starbucks is really innovative. Starbucks has started several new initiatives including this and a program to help provide tuition assistance to the Company’s full time employees.
In a post on his Facebook page, Chandrasekaran writes that the new company will produce “nonfiction, social-impact content, some of it in partnership with the Starbucks Coffee Co.” The company will start with producing television and film projects around Chandrasekaran’s 2014 book “For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism and Sacrifice.”
Chandrasekaran has had several jobs at The Post, including national editor, assistant managing editor and Baghdad bureau chief, according to his website. He is also the author of “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” a book about the post-invasion reconstruction of Iraq, which won the Overseas Press Club book award and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
He also covered the David Petraeus affair for The Washington Post, chronicling the scandal’s affect on other military officials, the lifestyle perks afforded a top general and the embattled official’s consultation of civilian military analysts.
This should be a very interesting evening