Escaping Bush's State of Exception: Torture and Truth, Obama and Us December 16, 2009

Escaping Bush's State of Exception: Torture and Truth, Obama and Us
Mark Danner: The 14th Annual Irving Howe Memorial Lecture
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. NO RESERVATIONS.
212/817.2005
Mark Danner is Professor of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College. His numerous books include The Secret Way to War; Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror; and the recently published Stripping Bare the Body: Politics, Violence, War. In 2009 the New York Review of Books published his highly acclaimed essay about a secret Red Cross investigation that exposed then-secret findings of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.

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