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The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse

The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse

Cohn, Marjorie

Hardcover

20th Century United States History21st Century United States HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0814717322
ISBN13: 9780814717325
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jan 12 2011
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog. We know exactly what they are, how to administer them, and, disturbingly, that they were secretly authorized by the Bush Administration in its efforts to extract information from people detained in its war on terror. What we lack, however, is a larger lens through which to view America's policy of torture -- one that dissects America's long relationship with interrogation and torture, which roots back to the 1950s and has been applied, mostly in secret, to enemies, ever since. How did America come to embrace this practice so fully, and how was it justified from a moral, legal, and psychological perspective?

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