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  • Danner, Mark, 1958-

    Published by New York: Nation Books, 2009, 2009

    Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.

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    Danner, Mark, 1958-. Stripping bare the body: politics, violence, war. New York: Nation Books, 2009, 2d printing, revised, xxviii, 626pp., very good dust-jacket, very good thick gray and black hardcover. CONTENTS: Foreword / by Louis Begley -- Introduction / by author -- Beyond the mountains -- La parenthèse -- The legacy -- The mountains -- The saddest story -- How not to stop a war -- Cleansing, camps, and genocide -- "Safe areas" and the politics of gesture -- Explosion in the marketplace -- The great betrayal -- To the killing fields -- Operation Storm and the cold peace -- Coda: Endgame in Kosovo -- Marooned in the Cold War -- The forever war -- The battleground in the American mind -- Struggles of democracy and empire -- How not to win a war -- Delusions in Baghdad -- Abu Ghraib : the hidden story -- A doctrine left behind -- We are all torturers now -- The real election -- The secret way to war -- Taking stock of the forever war -- The war of the imagination -- Words in a time of war -- Voices from the black sites -- The Red Cross report and what it means -- Into the light? : torture, power, and the real American exception -- Afterword: The erotic pull of the strange. ISBN 9781568584133.