Dark Side : The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

English

ISBN: 0307456293

EAN: 9780307456298

Category: Political Science / General/History / United States / 21St Century/Political Science / American Government / National/Political Science / Terrorism/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 05/05/2009

Synopsis: National Book Award Finalist With a New Afterword by the Author A searing and vitally important chronicle of how the Bush Administration has sacrificed our countrys core principles in the name of their war on terror. Jane Mayer, bestselling author and acclaimed correspondent forThe New Yorker, relates in gripping detail the impact of the Bush Administrations disastrous counterterrorism policies. Under their watch, U.S.-held prisoners, some of them completely innocent, have been subjected to treatment more reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition than the twenty-first century. Mayer shows how the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a longheld agenda to enhance presidential powers in an unprecedented manner, obliterating the Constitutional protections that define the American experiment.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize – null  Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null  National Book Awards – null 

Dark Side : The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Weight: 14.53 oz

Pages: 432