Stripping Bare the Body

by Danner, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781568586359
• ISBN10: 1568586353
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-08
• Publisher: Nation Books

Summary

Drawing on rich narratives of politics, violence, and war from around the globe and written by one of the world's leading journalists, Stripping Bare the Bodyis a moral history of American power during the last quarter century. From Iraq, the Balkans, and Haiti, to America's "black sites" around the world, Danner reports on our "grim age, still infused with the remnant perfume of imperial dreams."

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xvii
Beyond the Mountains	p. 1
La Parenthèse	p. 3
The Legacy	p. 47
The Mountains	p. 84
The Saddest Story	p. 123
How Not to Stop a War	p. 125
The Cleansing: A Televised Genocide	p. 145
Toward a Policy of Gesture: The Safe Areas	p. 172
Explosion in the Marketplace	p. 203
The Great Betrayal	p. 231
To the Killing Fields	p. 265
Operation Storm and the Cold Peace	p. 301
Coda: Endgame in Kosovo	p. 317
Marooned in the Cold War	p. 331
Lost in the Forever War	p. 363
The Battlefield in the American Mind	p. 365
Struggles of Democracy and Empire	p. 369
How Not to Win a War	p. 372
Delusions in Baghdad	p. 379
Abu Ghraib: Hidden in Plain Sight	p. 392
A Doctrine Left Behind	p. 412
We Are All Torturers Now	p. 416
The Real Election	p. 420
The Secret Way to War	p. 434
Taking Stock of the Forever War	p. 445
The War of the Imagination	p. 466
Voices from the Black Sites	p. 493
Into the Light? Torture, Power, and Us	p. 521
Afterword: The Erotic Pull of the Strange	p. 545
Coda: Words in a Time of War	p. 551
Acknowledgments	p. 565
Notes	p. 567
Selected Bibliography	p. 595
Index	p. 605
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