“That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it.”
— Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
“A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded.”
— Los Angeles Times
“Remarkable...A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering present.”
— David Garland, author of Peculiar Institution
Civilizing Torture
Year
2018
Pages
416
Type
Nonfiction
Praise
“That Americans as a people and a nation-state are violent is indisputable. That we are also torturers, domestically and internationally, is not so well established. The myth that we are not torturers will persist, but Civilizing Torture will remain a powerful antidote in confronting it.”
— Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
“A sobering history of how American communities and institutions have relied on torture in various forms since before the United States was founded.”
— Los Angeles Times
“Remarkable...A searing analysis of America’s past that helps make sense of its bewildering present.”
— David Garland, author of Peculiar Institution
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