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- Book Title
- Torture and Impunity : The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogatio
- ISBN
- 9780299288549
- Subject Area
- History, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Torture and Impunity : the U. S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Subject
- Intelligence & Espionage, Human Rights, Military / United States, Political Freedom
- Series
- Critical Human Rights Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 298 Pages
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Many Americans have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject's resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America's moral authority as a world leader.
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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10
0299288544
ISBN-13
9780299288549
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111395442
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Torture and Impunity : the U. S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Intelligence & Espionage, Human Rights, Military / United States, Political Freedom
Series
Critical Human Rights Ser.
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
298 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2011-043916
Lc Classification Number
Hv8599.U6m34 2012
Reviews
"A masterful account of an appalling national drift toward accepting torture as part of our culture and polity."-Alex Gibney, director, Oscar-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, "A fascinating and disturbing book, providing the most authoritative account of torture yet available and conforming to the best traditions of scholarship."--Richard Falk, Princeton University, "McCoy, our finest thinker on the issue of torture, describes its legalization under Bush and the damage caused to morality, law, and our future by Obama's granting of impunity to the torturers. Readers will come away with the understanding that the United States' commitment to human rights was tested by 9/11-and it failed."-Michael Ratner, president emeritus, Center for Constitutional Rights, "McCoy, our finest thinker on the issue of torture, describes its legalization under Bush and the damage caused to morality, law, and our future by Obama's granting of impunity to the torturers. Readers will come away with the understanding that the United States' commitment to human rights was tested by 9/11--and it failed."--Michael Ratner, president emeritus, Center for Constitutional Rights, "With this book, the leading historian of U.S. torture practices has done a great service for academics and the general public by deepening his genealogical account of psychological torture from the Cold War to the present. This is familiar ground for McCoy's readers, but Torture and Impunity adds significantly to our understanding."-- Journal of American History, "This book gives the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, about the use of torture by the United States intelligence service."--Jennifer Harbury, author of Truth, Torture, and the American Way, "A masterful account of an appalling national drift toward accepting torture as part of our culture and polity."--Alex Gibney, director, Oscar-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, "This book gives the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, about the use of torture by the United States intelligence service."-Jennifer Harbury, author of Truth, Torture, and the American Way, "A fascinating and disturbing book, providing the most authoritative account of torture yet available and conforming to the best traditions of scholarship."-Richard Falk, Princeton University
Table of Content
Preface 1 The CIA's Pursuit of Psychological Torture 2 Science in Dachau's Shadow 3 Torture in the Crucible of Counterinsurgency 4 Theater State of Terror 5 The Seduction of Psychological Torture 6 The Outcast of Camp Echo 7 Psychological Torture and Public Forgetting Notes Index
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
364.6/7
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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