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Mark Danner is the author, most recently, of Stripping Bare the Body- Politics Violence War. He is Chancellor's Professor of English, Journalism and Politics at the University of California at Berkeley and James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and the Humanities at Bard College and is currently teaching at Al Quds University in East Jerusalem. His book Torture and the Forever War will be published in the spring of 2013. His writing and other work can be found at markdanner.com.
Danner's engrossing analysis and painstaking scholarship may yet bring a measure of justice to the thousands of innocent Iraqis tortured in the cause of freedom and democracy. <br>-- Bill McSweeney, Irish Times <br> An invaluable resource...far more durable and available than any series of virtual documents on the web. <br>-- David Simpson, London Review of Books <br>.. .Despite the dereliction of network news and the subterfuge of the Bush administration, the information is all there in black and white, if not in video or color, for those who want to read it, whether in the daily press or in books like...Mark Danner's Torture and Truth. <br>-- Frank Rich, The New York Times <br> Danner's book does a fine job assembling [a collection of the relevant sources], from the Taguba report to the Justice Department's memoranda and opinions--one of which became so notorious for giving the president power to use coercive force that it is now often simply known as the 'Torture Memo'. <br>-- The Washington Post Book World <br> The documents, some of which are published for the first time in Torture and Truth, make for gripping, if disturbing, reading. <br>-- Mother Jones <br>.. .A reprint of some of the most important items in the historical record, an invitation to read the small print that prefigured and followed on the scenes now embedded in our memory and reproduced all over the world as icons of the Coalition's cruelty and hypocrisy....By offering themselves for slow reading and rereading, they also open up for discussion some of the deeper issues governing the way we perpetrate and respond to conduct that many of us consider inhuman and appalling. Among these issues is the language we use, and its consequences not just for others but for ourselves. <br>-- London Review of Books <br> Mr. Danner's book is valuable because to the 50 pages of articles he originally wrote for The New York Review of Books, the volume adds hundreds of pages off
